It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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