Kahlil Gibran

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"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."	Miscellaneous
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."	Equality, Hope, Sin
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."	Miscellaneous
"When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."	Art, Dreams, Friends
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."	Love
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."	Honesty, Men, Truth
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."	Miscellaneous
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."	Friends, Opportunity, Responsibility
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."	Age, Darkness, Death
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."	Art, Beauty, Honesty
"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."	Miscellaneous
"You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done."	Military, War
"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver."	Age, Dreams, Men
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."	Art, Darkness, Light
"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."	Men
"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."	Friends
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"	Government, Habits, Men
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."	Life, Military, War
"God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."	Life, Men, Military
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."	Friends, Opportunity, Responsibility
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Anti-God	Anti-Religion
Art	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Children	Choice
Confidence	Criticism	Darkness
Death	Desires	Difficulty
Doubt	Dreams	Economics
Education	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Faith
Fear	Friends	Friendship
Funerals	Generosity	Glory
God	Good	Government
Greatness	Habits	Happiness
History	Honesty	Honor
Hope	Humor	Ignorance
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Money	Music
Nature	Opportunity	Patriotism
Peace	Poetry	Power
Pride	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Saying Goodbye
School	Sin	Sleeping
Sorrow	Strength	Stupidity
Success	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing