These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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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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