It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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