The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 188
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and
reap the harvest with joy, even as if
your beloved were to eat the fruit.
The Prophet, passage 439
For when you strive for gain you are
but a root that clings to the earth and
sucks at her breast.
The Prophet, passage 252
Invoke then the master spirit of the
earth, to come into your midst and
sanctify the scales and the reckoning
that weighs value against value.
The Prophet, passage 244
Forget not that modesty
is for a shield against the eye of the
unclean.
The Prophet, passage 608
And though heavy-grounded ships await
the tide upon your shores, yet, even
like an ocean, you cannot hasten your
tides.
The Prophet, passage 53
And ever has it been that love knows
not its own depth until the hour of
separation.
The Prophet, passage 568
And when you have reached the mountain
top, then you shall begin to climb.
The Prophet, passage 536
Who can separate his faith from
his actions, or his belief from his
occupations?
The Prophet, passage 119
For life goes not backward nor tarries with
yesterday.
The Prophet, passage 629
And in this lies my honour and my reward,--
The Prophet, passage 628
Surely there is no greater gift to a man
than that which turns all his aims
into parching lips and all life into a
fountain.
The Prophet, passage 471
“Our God, who art our winged self, it is
thy will in us that willeth.
The Prophet, passage 517
At night the watchmen of the city say,
“Beauty shall rise with the dawn from
the east.”
The Prophet, passage 489
But even in their foregoing is their
pleasure.
The Prophet, passage 605
This is but half the truth. You are also
as strong as your strongest link.
The Prophet, passage 428
And let today embrace the past with
remembrance and the future with longing.
The Prophet, passage 216
Would that I could gather your houses
into my hand, and like a sower scatter
them in forest and meadow.
The Prophet, passage 427
But if in your thought you must measure
time into seasons, let each season
encircle all the other seasons,
The Prophet, passage 165
And in the autumn, when you gather
the grapes of your vineyards for the
winepress, say in your heart,
The Prophet, passage 257
For they too are gatherers of fruit and
frankincense, and that which they bring,
though fashioned of dreams, is raiment
and food for your soul.
The Prophet, passage 560
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow
your heart dreams of spring.
The Prophet, passage 147
And what desert greater shall there be,
than that which lies in the courage
and the confidence, nay the charity, of
receiving?
The Prophet, passage 123
For even as he loves the arrow that
flies, so He loves also the bow that is
stable.
The Prophet, passage 539
He who wears his morality but as his best
garment were better naked.
The Prophet, passage 207
But I say unto you, they are
inseparable.
The Prophet, passage 383
The astronomer may speak to you of his
understanding of space, but he cannot
give you his understanding.
The Prophet, passage 182
And all urge is blind save when there is
knowledge,
The Prophet, passage 10
Long
were the days of pain I have spent
within its walls, and long were the
nights of aloneness; and who can depart
from his pain and his aloneness without
regret?
The Prophet, passage 359
Even as the stone of the fruit must
break, that its heart may stand in the
sun, so must you know pain.
The Prophet, passage 357
And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us
of _Pain_.
The Prophet, passage 225
Though its hands are silken, its heart
is of iron.
The Prophet, passage 151
And you receivers--and you are
all receivers--assume no weight of
gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon
yourself and upon him who gives.
The Prophet, passage 29
And as he walked he saw from afar men
and women leaving their fields and their
vineyards and hastening towards the city
gates.
The Prophet, passage 607
To judge you by your failures is to
cast blame upon the seasons for their
inconstancy.
The Prophet, passage 634
And slept in the portico of the temple
when you would gladly have sheltered me,
The Prophet, passage 476
Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a
freedom-song.
The Prophet, passage 616
And of nights when earth was up-wrought
with confusion.
The Prophet, passage 75
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto
himself.
The Prophet, passage 260
Then one of the judges of the city
stood forth and said, Speak to us of
_Crime and Punishment_.
The Prophet, passage 74
So shall he descend to your roots and
shake them in their clinging to the
earth.
The Prophet, passage 640
And you have said, “He holds council
with the trees of the forest, but not
with men.
The Prophet, passage 349
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion,
unattended, is a flame that burns to its
own destruction.
The Prophet, passage 294
What judgment pronounce you upon him
who though honest in the flesh yet is a
thief in spirit?
The Prophet, passage 606
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the power of ocean by the
frailty of its foam.
The Prophet, passage 368
You would know in words that which you
have always known in thought.
The Prophet, passage 141
Therefore give now, that the season
of giving may be yours and not your
inheritors’.
The Prophet, passage 453
But let not him who longs much say to
him who longs little, “Wherefore are
you slow and halting?”
The Prophet, passage 13
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me,
but a heart made sweet with hunger and
with thirst.
The Prophet, passage 20
And his soul cried out to them, and he
said:
The Prophet, passage 447
But you who are strong and swift, see
that you do not limp before the lame,
deeming it kindness.