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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

~Khalil Gibran

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Poet

Born: January 6th, 1883

Died: April 10th, 1931

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