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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.

Alan Paton

The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATON

Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON

Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATON

Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATON

According Judge Justice Law Unjust
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON

Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON

Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATON

Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATON

Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATON

Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe

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