Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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