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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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