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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

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

Being Came Creator Ground Holy
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
ALAN PATON

Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATON

Broken Thing Tragedy
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
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Much Rob Too
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
ALAN PATON

Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON

Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun

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