People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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