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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.

Alan Paton

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATON

Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON

Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer

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