Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep. … - Khalil Gibran - Quotesmemo.com

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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

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Khalil Gibran

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!"

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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

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Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

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