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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATON

Break Heart Stop
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
ALAN PATON

Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATON

Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON

Ask Expedient Right Yourself
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON

Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow
For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
ALAN PATON

Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON

Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
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.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATON

Hill Lovely Raed Run

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