Sorrow is better than fear.
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More Alan Paton Quotes
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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