Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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