Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 30

• Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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  Greatness, Poverty, Faces

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• Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

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  Faith, Science, Religion

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• You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

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  Made, Tombs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

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  Country, Jesus, Brother

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.

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  Sleep, Earth, Ripeness

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

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  Cities, Evil, Way

  Khalil Gibran, “Good And Evil XXII”

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• We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

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  Farewell, Eye, Kissing

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• Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

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  Tears, Tongue

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

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  Heritage, Deny

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• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

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  Children, Parenting, Separation

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• A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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  Wind, Littles, Bears

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

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  Eye, Anchors, House

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

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  Knowledge, Body, Soil

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• Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

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  Jesus, Mind, Path

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

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  Blessing, Names, Different

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• And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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  Time, Past, Love Is

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

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  Inspiring, Love Life, Secret

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• A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

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  Eagles, Wings, Voice

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
  Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

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  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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  Heart, Blood, Hands

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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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  Crush, Powerful, Flower

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• All these things shall love do unto you
  that you may know the secrets of your heart,
  and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

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  Life, Heart, Secret

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

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  Dream, Space, Desire

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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  Dark, Water, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

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  Disappointment, Hands, Hopelessness

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