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.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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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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