It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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