People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONMoney is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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