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.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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