I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are 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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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