"He alone is great who turns the..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
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“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.”
“Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.”
“Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.”
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“Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.”
“To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.”
“Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?”
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“When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.”
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