And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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