There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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