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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
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And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
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To belittle, you have to be little.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed For love is sufficient unto love.
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