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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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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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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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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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