The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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