This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Happy the eyes that can close
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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