Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

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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.

ALAN PATON

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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Compass False Lie Ned Rest Slip
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

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.
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Ehetehr Halt Moment See Wake
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

ALAN PATON

Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

ALAN PATON

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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No One Second
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

ALAN PATON

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Into Lovely Xopo
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.

ALAN PATON

Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Terribly
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.

ALAN PATON

Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Cry End Thing Yet
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

ALAN PATON

These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Covered Roll
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.

ALAN PATON

When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Threaten
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

ALAN PATON

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON

All Greatest Offence Punish
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

ALAN PATON

Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATON

Hard Many Write
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

ALAN PATON

She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON

Leave Sustenance Taught
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

ALAN PATON

The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON

Mend Thing
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

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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Custom
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.

ALAN PATON

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Child Cry Inheritor Unborn
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

ALAN PATON

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATON

Achieve Found Morbid Preoccupation Shortcoming

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