When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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