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?
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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