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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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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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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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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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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
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