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 PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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