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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
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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