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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

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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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
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.
ALAN PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
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

Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
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
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
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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Men Work
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley

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