There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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