Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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