Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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