It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONThere are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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