Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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