But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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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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