Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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