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Alan Paton Quotes

Alan Paton quotes

South african Novelist January 11, 1903 – April 12, 1988

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Alan Paton quote: "Happy the eyes that can close"
Happy the eyes that can close Alan Paton
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful) Alan Paton
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. Alan Paton
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 come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be. Alan Paton
Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all. Alan Paton
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
Alan Paton quote: "He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but..."
He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world. Alan Paton
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
Alan Paton quote: "God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive? Alan Paton
Alan Paton quote: "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
Alan Paton quote: "We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people...."
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money. Alan Paton
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
Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence, it is nothing, he is old and does nothing but forget? And would he nod as though he too were saying, Yes, it is nothing, I am old and do nothing but forget? But who would know that he said, I do nothing but remember? Alan Paton
And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is black too, and the world is black, and one can tell oneself that it will pass, but these are only words that one speaks to oneself, for while it is there it is no comfort that it will pass. Alan Paton
Alan Paton quote: "There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never..."
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton

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