because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
ALAN PATONBut 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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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?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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