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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
Alen Peṭon
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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 have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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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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