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.
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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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 what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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 a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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