Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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