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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
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He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
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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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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
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And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
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Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
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One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.
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