These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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