Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONI have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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.
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