One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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