Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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