Quote by Kahlil Gibran
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones in

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. – Kahlil Gibran

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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. – Kahlil Gibran

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Contentment
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran

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Pain
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Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Futility
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy. – William Proxmire

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink. – Oscar Wilde

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Drinking

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. – Abraham Lincoln

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Drinking

When youre thirty-five, you cant take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it… – John Lennon

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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds. – Marianne Williamson

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I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybodys cool on the block. – Craig Robinson

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. – Joseph Addison

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