But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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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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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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 food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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