I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONWise 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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