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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.

Alan Paton

Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON

Again Mend Thing Tragedy
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.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
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
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
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
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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Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
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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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATON

Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work

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