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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Paton

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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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATON

Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
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
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON

Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATON

Christian Free Suffer Thought
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATON

Bird Land Move Sing
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATON

Broken Thing Tragedy
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
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
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
ALAN PATON

Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman

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