Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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