But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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 was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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