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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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