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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.

Alan Paton

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATON

Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON

Being Came Creator Ground Holy
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON

Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
ALAN PATON

Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATON

Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATON

Beautiful Face Land Question
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.

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