Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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