When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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