But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONWho knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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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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