Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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