Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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