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ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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