Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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