Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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 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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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