Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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