because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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