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From Quotes by Alan Paton
- For who can stop the heart from breaking?
- 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…
- There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
- But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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,…
- There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will…
- I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered,…
- I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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