But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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