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.
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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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.
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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.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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