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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?

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
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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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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.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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To belittle, you have to be little.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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I learnt silence from the talkative
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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
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A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.
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