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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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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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All work is empty save when there is love.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)
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In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
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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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Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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