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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Alan Paton

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.
ALAN PATON

Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATON

Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATON

Christian Free Suffer Thought
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
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.
ALAN PATON

Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATON

All Road Country Lead Pople
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATON

Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATON

All Forgive Trespass Us
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON

Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote

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