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All Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
- And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
- All work is empty save when there is love.
- Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world;…
- Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity…
- Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
- When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is…
- The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does…
- If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
- Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the…
- Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is…
- Only love and death will change all things.
- For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.
- Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that…
- Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic…
- Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
- My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for…
- The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.
- 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…
- When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness;…
- Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
- What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
- God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
- If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
- In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth,…
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