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In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

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
Naught
Truth
Men

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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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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A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
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From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
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A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
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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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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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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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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
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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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