Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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