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The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
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The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.
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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
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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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