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Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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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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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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 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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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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