Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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