Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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