Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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