For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONI 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.
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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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 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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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