For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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