Alan Paton Quotes

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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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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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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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 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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. 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 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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Happy the eyes that can close

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

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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

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