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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.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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