I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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 day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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