These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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