For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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