Kahlil Gibran

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"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
"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."	Miscellaneous
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"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
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."	Happiness, Joy, Poetry
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."	Sorrow
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."	Ability, Intelligence, Life
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."	Choice, Experience, Happiness
"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."	Art, Faith, Friends
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."	Dreams, Memory, Sleeping
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."	Age, Life, Music
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."	Happiness, Joy, Sorrow
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."	Miscellaneous
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."	Death, Dreams, Life
"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
"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you."	Miscellaneous
"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
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Anger	Anti-God	Anti-Religion
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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