Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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