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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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
Life
Merriment
Determination
Desire

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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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A root is a flower that disdains fame.
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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.
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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.
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