I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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