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Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
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The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
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Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.
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Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
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A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.
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A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and out-worn scales.
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You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
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Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.
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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.
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It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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This for God and this for myself;
This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.
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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 how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
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Space is not space between the earth and the sun to one who looks down from the windows of the Milky Way.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Born:
January 6, 1883
Died:
April 10, 1931
(aged 48)
Bio:
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League.
Known for:
The Prophet (1923)
The Madman (1918)
Broken Wings (1912)
Sand and Foam (1926)
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
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