Khalil Gibran Quotes, Thrones Quotes, Firsts Quotes

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

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A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

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In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

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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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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

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The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

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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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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

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The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

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