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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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