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To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Work , Nature , Personality , Sunshine


Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Few , Government , Above , Below


Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Always , Value , Without , Purpose


Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  White , Revolution , Politicians , Poets


Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Weak , Strong , Spiritual , Rule , Nations


To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  World , Mood , Soul , Pose


The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Time , Man , History , Today


Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Character , Self , Little Things , Pose


Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Work , Old , Independent , Text


Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

Author: Ameen Rihani - Lebanese Writer
  Just , Society , Balance , Government


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