The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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