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 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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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