Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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