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Alan Paton Quotes

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive Picture Quote #1

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive Picture Quote #1

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret Picture Quote #1

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing Picture Quote #1

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret Picture Quote #1

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences Picture Quote #1

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right Picture Quote #1

For who can stop the heart from breaking? Picture Quote #1

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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right Picture Quote #1

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep Picture Quote #1

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools Picture Quote #1

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already Picture Quote #1

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love Picture Quote #1

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much Picture Quote #1

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Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving Picture Quote #1

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich Picture Quote #1

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Picture Quote #1

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive Picture Quote #1

Happy the eyes that can close Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do Picture Quote #1

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again Picture Quote #1

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it Picture Quote #1

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much Picture Quote #1

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses (Alan Paton Quotes) 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 (Alan Paton Quotes) There’s a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. (Alan Paton Quotes) There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. (Alan Paton Quotes) But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret. (Alan Paton Quotes) If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing. (Alan Paton Quotes) 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 Quotes) If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing (Alan Paton Quotes) But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret (Alan Paton Quotes) But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences (Alan Paton Quotes) You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right (Alan Paton Quotes) For who can stop the heart from breaking? (Alan Paton Quotes) Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right (Alan Paton Quotes) Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep (Alan Paton Quotes) Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools (Alan Paton Quotes) Although nothing has come yet, something is here already (Alan Paton Quotes) There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love (Alan Paton Quotes) For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much (Alan Paton Quotes) Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving (Alan Paton Quotes) But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich (Alan Paton Quotes) What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? (Alan Paton Quotes) When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive (Alan Paton Quotes) Happy the eyes that can close (Alan Paton Quotes) 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 (Alan Paton Quotes) Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much (Alan Paton Quotes) 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 (Alan Paton Quotes) And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do (Alan Paton Quotes) The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again (Alan Paton Quotes) It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it (Alan Paton Quotes) Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much (Alan Paton Quotes)

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