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First Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason…
- Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See…
- 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;…
- For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my…
- If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
- 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.
- Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If…
- Yet 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. And that…
- You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks…
- And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
- That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only…
- My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It…
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