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I 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.

Alan Paton

Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATON

Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
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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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
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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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATON

Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo

I 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.

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