There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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