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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Alan Paton

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATON

Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
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
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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.
ALAN PATON

Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATON

Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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