I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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 I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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