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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.

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 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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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