What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONNor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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