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As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

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
Friends
Decrease
Gifts
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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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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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A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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