But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONWhat 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?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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