For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON
Now 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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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