All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONWise 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, 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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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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