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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is 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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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