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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.

Alan Paton

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATON

Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATON

Beautiful Face Land Question
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATON

Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
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.
ALAN PATON

Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON

Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATON

Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATON

Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
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.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound

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