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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATON

Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON

Been Could Dwell Habit never
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.
ALAN PATON

Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATON

Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATON

Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATON

Die Know Live Struggle
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.
ALAN PATON

Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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