Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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