There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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