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A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

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
Immodest
Nobler
Shyness
Shy
Failure
Success
Inspirational

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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
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Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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To know the pain of too much tenderness
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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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 first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
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Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
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