One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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