Khalil Quotes

#1. Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

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#2. I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.

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#3. Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires,
The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart,
But it burns not with your song.

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#4. What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

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#5. I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

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#6. You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.

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#7. Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

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#8. All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. 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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#9. My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me.

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#10. The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

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#11. Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

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#12. We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

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#13. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

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#14. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do - for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

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#15. All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.

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#16. They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

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