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Alan Paton

Alan Paton

South African Novelist

Born: Jan 11, 1903

Died: Apr 12, 1988

Forgive He Man Own South Africa You

Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton

Forgiveness Recover Never Until Forgive Done Us Deep Injury

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive? Alan Paton

God Am Forgive Forgives Us Who Who Am I

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Alan Paton

Man Broke Could He Himself Another Bring

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

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. Alan Paton

You Yourself Expedient Ask Right

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

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. Alan Paton

Man Responsibility Free Society Give Free Man Up Task Reforming

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