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.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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