Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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