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.
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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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