I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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