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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON

Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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 PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON

Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON

Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATON

All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATON

Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATON

Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist

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