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Kahlil Gibran Quotes: Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
         

Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.


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Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
         



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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?



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