Kahlil Gibran

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"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."	Age, Darkness, Death
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Excellence, Greatness, Humor
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."	Miscellaneous
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."	Art, Men, Nature
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."	Life
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Excellence, Greatness, Humor
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."	Knowledge, Love, Wisdom
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."	Beginnings, Knowledge, Wisdom
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."	Education, Learning, School
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."	Dreams, Knowledge, Life
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."	Happiness, Joy, Sorrow
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."	Art, Darkness, Honesty
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Art, Knowledge, Monarchy
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."	Beauty, Evil, Honesty
"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."	Generosity
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."	Ambition, Love, Men
"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."	Miscellaneous
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."	Generosity, Monarchy, Pride
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."	Equality, Hope, Sin
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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