Alan Paton Quotes, Habit Quotes, Could Have Been Quotes

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

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

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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

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

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

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For who can stop the heart from breaking?

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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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