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.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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