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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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
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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 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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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