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?
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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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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