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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Alan Paton

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
ALAN PATON

Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
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
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
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?
ALAN PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATON

Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON

Been Could Dwell Habit never
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch

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