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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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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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