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For who can stop the heart from breaking?

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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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