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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass 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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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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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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A truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
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She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.
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If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
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Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.
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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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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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The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.
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A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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