Alan Paton Quotes, Running Quotes, Country Quotes

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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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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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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