But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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