Men quotes by 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."
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
"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."
"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."
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver."
"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"
"God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
"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."
"Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts."
"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion."
"The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."
"Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent."
"The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."