Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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