It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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