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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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