For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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