The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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