Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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