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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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We had two masters of the spoken word in South Africa, General Smuts and his lieutenant J. H. Hofmeyr, whose life I wrote. Smuts spoke in a high-pitched voice, not the kind of voice that one would expect from a famous soldier, but he too could hold an audience in the hollow of his hand, partly because he was Smuts, partly because he could say nothing trite or shallow, partly because he knew how to speak to ordinary men and women.
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Born:
January 11, 1903
Died:
April 12, 1988
(aged 85)
Bio:
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.
Known for:
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
Too Late the Phalarope (1953)
Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful (1983)
Tales from a Troubled Land (1961)
Towards the Mountain: An Autobiography (1980)
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