| Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| The highest virtue here may be least in another world. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| 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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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Much of your pain is self-chosen. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
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- Kahlil Gibran |
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