For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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