People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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