I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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