For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Happy the eyes that can close
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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