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.
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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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