For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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