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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.

Alan Paton

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
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.
ALAN PATON

Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON

Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATON

Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON

Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATON

Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATON

Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATON

Already Although Come Nothing Something
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATON

Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATON

All Forgive Trespass Us
And money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATON

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

As Development Exploit Name Such True
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow

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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