Khalil Gibran Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Despise Quotes

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

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Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

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Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

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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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For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.

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Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

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A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

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The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

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Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

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And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

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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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