When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And 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.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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