There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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