The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON
ALAN PATON
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
Alan PatonAlan Paton But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Happy the eyes that can close
Alan PatonAlan Paton It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
Alan PatonAlan Paton Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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.
Alan PatonAlan Paton 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 PatonAlan Paton Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Alan PatonAlan Paton But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Alan PatonAlan Paton This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
Alan PatonAlan Paton One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
Alan PatonAlan Paton I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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