Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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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.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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 is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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