When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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More Alan Paton Quotes
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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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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