Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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