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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

Alan Paton

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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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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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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