Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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