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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

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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATON

Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATON

Deep Good Here Something Touch
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATON

Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
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.
ALAN PATON

Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
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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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATON

Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
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
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley

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