Quotes by Alan Paton

Alan Paton

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.

Compassion

Gold

Heaven

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Asks

Life

Standards

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.

Journey

Lying

Stars

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.

Church

Hard Work

School

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

Cry The Beloved Country

May

Sorrow

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.

Children

Country

Giving

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Giving

Too Much

Unborn Child

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.

Children

Dream

Men

Happy the eyes that can close

Cry The Beloved Country

Eye

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.

Love

Peace

Pride

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Asks

Beautiful

Beloved Country

Broken

Care

Children

Christian

Church

Compassion

Concern

Could Have Been

Country

Cry The Beloved Country

Dark

Dream

Eye

Fall

Fear

Fighting

Forgiveness

Found

Giving

Gold

Gun

Habit

Hard Work

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Heaven

House

Issues

Journey

Killing Each Other

Land

Life

Love

Lovely

Lying

May

Men

Mistake

Morbid

Moving On

Names

Novel

Nowhere To Go

One Day

One Thing

Peace

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Quotes by Alan Paton

Alan Paton

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.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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.

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.

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

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.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Happy the eyes that can close

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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