I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. Alan Paton More Quotes by Alan Paton More Quotes From Alan Paton 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 lovely singing running 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 giving country children We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money. Alan Paton land men people 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 taught st-francis-of-assisi use It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton belief fear love 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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. Alan Paton expect-nothing taught results For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country failing dawn But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. Alan Paton offence There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart. Alan Paton hate country children Happy the eyes that can close Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country eye 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 men children But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country sorrow may 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. Alan Paton hate heart country But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country dawn secret Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country fool quiet Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country names rivers Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. Alan Paton One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored. Alan Paton one-day soul house Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep. Alan Paton touched All roads lead to Johannesburg. Alan Paton johannesburg
