Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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