There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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