But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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 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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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