Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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 me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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