Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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