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To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Above Boy Camera Copy Distant Divine Follow Genius Get Human Inform Interpret Nature Personality Rises Shepherd Spirit Sunshine Trail Whistling Wind Work

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There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

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Topics: Born Cherish Continue Disappointment Failure Ideal Inner Inner Self Invest Noblest Self Selflessness Soul Thing Those Which Who

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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Age Also Artists Day Fancy Fashion Following Garments Great History Itself Like Mind Our Poets Present Priests Prophets Recognize Repeats Seasons Seldom Slant Span Temper True Truth Turn Us Year

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Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Always Apathy Blessing Experience Induced Knowledge Lack Least Material Only Power Resource Sought Those Tolerance Virtue Vision Who Wisdom

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Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

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Topics: Above Autocracy Below Few Government

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The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Develop Die Hidden History Important Individuals Man Most Must Nations Never Once See Seed Significance Street The History Of The Most Important Things Time Today Trivial Understand Versa Vice Vice Versa Which Who

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Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Character Essential First Little Little Things Make-Up Our Pose Real Reveal Self Sure Themselves Things Traits Truly Trumpet Which

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Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

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Topics: Adds Arabic Books Broad Generally Gloom Independent Margin Old Page Printed Separate Text Wherein Work

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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Always Deficiencies Forms Futile Import Impulse Indeed Individuals Purpose States Sublime Them Underlying Value Various Without Working Would

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Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

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Topics: Balance Government Just May Only Properly Rod Society Which

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Writer

Born: November 24th, 1876

Died: September 13th, 1940

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