It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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