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.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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