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?
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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