For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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