One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
More Alan Paton Quotes
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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