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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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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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 to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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