The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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