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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
«The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
enters, guest, host, house guest, lust, stealthy
«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.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
God,
Men
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, Law of God, natural causes, natural law, The Bird, The Birds, Traditions, traps, turn around
«Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
appeal, covering, coverings, mask, obscures, tribulation, tribulations, veil
«That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Weakness
| Keywords:
chain, link, The Complete
«For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.»
«We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.»
«Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.»
«When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
flute, flutes, in unison, reed, sings, The Hours, unison, whispering, whisperings
«Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
prophet, resembles, Strange Land