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.
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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