When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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