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.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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