"Love one another, but make not a..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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“Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'”
“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
“Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.”
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“Compassion seems to be the greatest power.”
“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!”
“Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
“There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .”
“You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.”