What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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 Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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