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Quotes from Too Late the Phalarope — Alan Paton

1903–1988 South Africa

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A word from you is twice as severe because it comes from you.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

The light of the body is the eye, and when the eye is true then is the body full of light, but when the eye is evil, then is the body dark.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

....for the black moods and the angers and the cold withdrawals that robbed her of the simple joys of her quiet and humble life.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

...if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

Why a man should have great strengths and great weakness I do not understand. For the first call him to honour, and the second to dishonour; and the first to fame and the second to destruction

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

...when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Too Late the Phalarope (1953)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Paton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.