Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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