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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Sorrow, Arriving

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy the eyes that can close

  Alan Paton

  Eye, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

  Alan Paton

  Fall, Dark, White

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Names, Add

  ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”

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• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  Alan Paton

  Fool, Cry The Beloved Country, Quiet

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

  Alan Paton

  Offence

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Voice, Done, Helping

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Life, Inspiring, Men

  "Power Verbs for Career Consultants, Coaches, and Mentors". Book by Michael Lawrence Faulkner (p.126), 2013.

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• But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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  Sorrow, May, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Alan Paton

  Finished, One Thing

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Lovely, Singing

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

  Alan Paton

  Habit, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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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?

  Alan Paton

  Heart, Eye, Gun

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Country, Practice

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Hard Work, School, Church

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Alan Paton

  St Francis Of Assisi, Use, Taught

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• There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

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  Cry The Beloved Country, One Thing, Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Land, People

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Country, Children, Giving

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  Alan Paton

  Dream, Children, Men

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• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

  Alan Paton

  Goes On, Cry The Beloved Country, Destroying

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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.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Land, Care

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

  Alan Paton

  Touched

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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