Kahlil Gibran

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"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
"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."	Poetry
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."	Friendship, Desires
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."	Art, Men, Nature
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."	Art
"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."	Friends
"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."	Religion
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."	Love, Death
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."	Doubt, Faith, Knowledge
"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
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."	Education, School, Teaching
"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."	Miscellaneous
"Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields...."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."	Knowledge, Love, Wisdom
"Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."	Art, Faith, Knowledge
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."	Doubt, Evil, Fear
"For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all."	Government, Generosity
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."	Art, Darkness, Light
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."	Friends, Opportunity, Responsibility
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."	Friends, Opportunity, Responsibility
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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
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