Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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