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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Knowledge
Lying
Half
Nothing
Dawning
Men
Asleep
Reveal
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Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
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A truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
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The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison. And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
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You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
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Your house is your larger body.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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