Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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