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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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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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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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