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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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