Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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 tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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