It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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More Alan Paton Quotes
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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 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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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