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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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