Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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