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.
ALAN PATONBut perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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