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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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 best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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When you part from your friend, you grieve not For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
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Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
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