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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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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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