Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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