Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONFor 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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