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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATON

Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON

Been Could Dwell Habit never
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATON

Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON

Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
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?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATON

Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATON

Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
ALAN PATON

Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON

Again Mend Thing Tragedy
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Much Rob Too
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATON

Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand

And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.

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