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Let me rather starve,
And let my heart parch with thirst,
And let me die and perish,
Ere I stretch my hand
To a cup you did not fill,
Or a bowl you did not bless.

— Kahlil Gibran The Forerunner (1920)

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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

The Prophet (1923)

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

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