When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran
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The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
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To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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A lion is much more dreadful to him that never saw him, than he is to his keeper who feedeth him every day. A pitched battle is more frightful and scaring to a new listed soldier, that never took his place in the field before, nor saw the dreadful counten
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For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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