Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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because 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.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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