Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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 envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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