Beloved Country Quotes

• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Lovely, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Country, Children, Giving

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• 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.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Country, Children

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• 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

  Country, Hate, Heart

  Cry, the Beloved Country ch. 7 (1948)

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

  Alan Paton

  Cry The Beloved Country, One Thing

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Love, Men, One Thing

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• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  Alan Paton

  Fool, Cry The Beloved Country, Quiet

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• 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

  Secret, Dawn, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Giving, Unborn Child, Too Much

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• 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.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Men, House

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Sorrow, Arriving

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Country, Practice

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Men, Land, People

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• 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, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Believe, Suffering

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Children, Men

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• 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.

  Alan Paton

  Compassion, Heaven, Gold

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Names, Add

  ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”

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• For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

  Alan Paton

  Dawn, Cry The Beloved Country, Failing

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

  Alan Paton

  Names, Rivers, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Hands, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

  Alan Paton

  Broken, Tragedy, Cry The Beloved Country

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• 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.

  Alan Paton

  Men, Land, Care

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Sorrow, May, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

  Alan Paton

  Money, Children, Clothes

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• 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

  Home, Sleep, Past

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