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A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

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
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Moving
Filled
Strong
Weak
Dream
Among
Splendor
Love
Dreams
Precious
Minutes
Minute
Beauty
Granted
Greater
Patterns
Age
Greatness

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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
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When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
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Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
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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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It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
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Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.
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