For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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