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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.

Alan Paton

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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
Alen Peṭon
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying 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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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