Kahlil Gibran - Sand and Foam (1926)

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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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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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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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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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and out-worn scales.

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A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.

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Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

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Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.

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Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

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When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

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A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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