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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.

Alan Paton

Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATON

Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
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.
ALAN PATON

Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Much Rob Too
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATON

Already Although Come Nothing Something
Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON

Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON

Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
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.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until

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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