People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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