Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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