Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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