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 PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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