One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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