Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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 were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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