She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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.
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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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