It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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 food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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