Alan Paton Quotes

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, 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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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

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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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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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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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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

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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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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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