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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
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Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
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There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
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Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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I am bored with gabbers and their gab my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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I am the lover's gift I am the wedding wreath I am the memory of a moment of happiness I am the last gift of the living to the dead I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
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Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
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