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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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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
Alen Peṭon
Kindness
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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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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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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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