It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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 are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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