Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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