Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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