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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATON

Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATON

Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
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.
ALAN PATON

Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
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.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATON

According Judge Justice Law Unjust
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.
ALAN PATON

Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.

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