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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.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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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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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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