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"Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!""
"And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
"To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets."
"Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them."
"You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue."
"Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment."
"Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds."
"Work is love made visable."
"Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye."
"Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees."
"He who denies his heritage, has no heritage"
"The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation."
"Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)"
"And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree."
"Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity."
"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."
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."
"The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?""
"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."
"The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock."