For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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