Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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