She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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