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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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