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In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
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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To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.
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What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
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The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.
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Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
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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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No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .
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We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.
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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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The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
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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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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
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I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.
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Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
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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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I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
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The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
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Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.
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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
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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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