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.
ALAN PATONOne thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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