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Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

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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.

Life, Men, Struggle, Wisdom, Wise

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

Fear, Gives, Giving, Rob, Too Much, Unborn Child

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Country, Hate, Hating, Heart, Loving

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Completely, Love, Man, Men, One Thing, Power

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.

Child, Children, Country, Cry, Giving, Let

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

Ant, Dark, Fall, Leaf, Water, White

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.

Sleep, Home, Men, Destruction, Gathering, Greatest

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

Land, Men, Money, People, Work

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

Beloved Country, Cry The Beloved Country, Love, One Thing, Power, Thing

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)

Beautiful, Face, Fighting, Havent, Land, Question

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Abate, Changes, Fear, Men, Prevent, Strive

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.

Counsel, Cries, Done, Help, Helping, Voice

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Found, Loving, Morbid, Preoccupation, Society

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

Kindness, Love, Pain, Secret

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

According, Judge, Justice, Law, People

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.

Ixopo, Lovely, Road, Rolling, Running, Singing

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

Let, Poor, Rich, Strong, Weak

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Destroyed, House, Journey, Man, Men, Nothing

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.

Care, Guard, Holy, Land, Men

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.

Children, Country, Running, Sun, Unborn, Valley

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