Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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