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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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