But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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