For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONLet him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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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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