All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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