Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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