There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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