Happy the eyes that can close
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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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When 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?
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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