Happy the eyes that can close
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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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