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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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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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