Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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