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Let your best be for your friend.

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
Friendship
Friend
Friends
Best
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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
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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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It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
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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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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
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All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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