When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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