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The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
Ameen Rihani
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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
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Politician
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Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
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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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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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... 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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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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We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
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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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... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
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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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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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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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True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
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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 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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True knowledge is power but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
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Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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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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The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.
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Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
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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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