And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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