Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONCry, 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.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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