Kahlil Gibran

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"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."	Miscellaneous
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."	Education, School, Teaching
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."	Men, Strength
"You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done."	Military, War
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."	Honesty, Lies, Men
"Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."	Art, Ignorance, Law
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."	Doubt, Evil, Fear
"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
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."	Ambition, Desires, Dreams
"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
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."	Doubt, Faith, Knowledge
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."	Life, Military, War
"When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."	Death, Life
"To be closer to God, be closer to people."	Miscellaneous
"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
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."	Anger, Excellence, Life
"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."	Lies
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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