Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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