Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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 the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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