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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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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
Smoke
East
Green
Fire
Light
Today
Firewood
Compete

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A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
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When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.
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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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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 renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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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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At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
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Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
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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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We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
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I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
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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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What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
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