I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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