"They give that they may live, for..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]”
“He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
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“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.”
“Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that.”
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
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“Love is the law of life.”
“The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.”
“I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.”