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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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
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Freedom
Free
Without
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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
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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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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
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Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
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Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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