But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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And 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.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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