For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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