It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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 that things are not mended again.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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