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Alan Paton

For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
ALAN PATON

Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATON

Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON

All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATON

Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
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.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATON

Broken Thing Tragedy
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON

Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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 PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATON

All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATON

All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm

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