There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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