The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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But 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.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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