But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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