But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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