Alan Paton - Fear Quotes

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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. But when that 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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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