People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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