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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
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Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
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Every man is two men one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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What is fear of need but need itself?
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Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
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But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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