She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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