It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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