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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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 tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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