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.
ALAN PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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