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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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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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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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