For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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 ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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