For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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