She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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