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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

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
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Blushes
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Men
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
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Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet you may even throw me into a dark prison but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
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The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.
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And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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