Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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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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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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