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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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 was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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