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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.
Ameen Rihani
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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
Green
Fire
Light
Today
Firewood
Compete
Smoke
East
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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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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.
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We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
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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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Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
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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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Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die it only undergoes a change.
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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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My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.
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At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
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The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.
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The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
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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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Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.
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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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