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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
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Friend
Needs
Answered
Prophet
Friendship

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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom I am in comfort, I am in peace.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
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They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
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And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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I learnt silence from the talkative
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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