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.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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 always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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