I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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