Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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