Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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