There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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