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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton

For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
ALAN PATON

Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON

Ask Expedient Right Yourself
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATON

Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATON

Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
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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Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATON

Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money

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