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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

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
Rudder
Rudders
Sails
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Fill
Enthusiasm
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Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
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A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
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A root is a flower that disdains fame.
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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
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