Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATONbecause life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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