Alan Paton Short Quotes

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

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

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

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When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

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

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

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

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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 not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

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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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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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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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