The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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