But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON
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Alan PatonAlan Paton 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.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Alan PatonAlan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Alan PatonAlan Paton I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Alan PatonAlan Paton The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Alan PatonAlan Paton But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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.
Alan PatonAlan Paton We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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