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Life 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
Tags: goals, action

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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
— Alan Paton
Tags: way, humanity, man, life
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
Tags: men, struggle, wise, wisdom
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
— Alan Paton
Tags: free, society, responsibility, man
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
— Alan Paton
Tags: who-am-i, forgive, who, god
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
Tags: ask, right, yourself, you
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