This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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