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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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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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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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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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