Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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