Ameen Rihani - The Book of Khalid (1911)

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Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

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Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

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Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

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An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

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When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

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I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

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True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

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