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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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 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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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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