When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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