These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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