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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
Ameen Rihani
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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
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Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes
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Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.
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I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
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Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die it only undergoes a change.
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We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.
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I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
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Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
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Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.
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Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.
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... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.
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We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
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True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
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Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
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If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
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Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
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You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
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I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.
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... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
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