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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.
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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
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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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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
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To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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Hell is not in torture Hell is in an empty heart.
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