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Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

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
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Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
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you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.
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Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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What is fear of need but need itself?
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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
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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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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
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