Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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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.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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