Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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