Alan Paton Quotes, Country Quotes, Hate Quotes

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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

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

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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

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

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