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 PATONWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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