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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.

Alan Paton

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
ALAN PATON

Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATON

Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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 PATON

Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
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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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATON

Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist

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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