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.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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