One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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