Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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