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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
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They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
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To belittle, you have to be little.
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And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
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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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Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
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you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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