Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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 one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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