#lit

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#enriches #genius #school #solitude #understanding

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#become #i #i think #little #more

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#dangerous #family #how #i #know

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#friendship #never #opportunity #responsibility #sweet

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dew #finds #heart #laughter #little

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#acts #idle #infinitely #knowledge #little

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#little #possessions #truly #you #your