"I would not have thee believe in what……" — Khalil
"I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action."
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24 Quotes by Khalil
Khalil has 24 quotes on this site.
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I have met the soul walking upon my path.
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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct…
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind…
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The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life…
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I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must…
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the…
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Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to…
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Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow…
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and…
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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know…
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Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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