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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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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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