For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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 love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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