Alan Paton Quotes
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. 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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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No second Johannesburg is needed up on the earth.One is enough.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.