For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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