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.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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