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| What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. |
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. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| 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. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. |
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. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| To be closer to God, be closer to people. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Let there be spaces in your togetherness. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. |
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. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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| Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. |
G. W. F. Hegel |
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| If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| Something unknown is doing we don't know what. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| The mathematics is not there till we put it there. |
Sir Arthur Eddington |
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| Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'. |
Keven Kwaku |
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