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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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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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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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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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 arriving.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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