Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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.
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