Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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