Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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