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Alan Paton Inspirational Quotes (60)

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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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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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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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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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