Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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 money is not something to go mad about …
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