The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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