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Ameen Rihani

Lebanese Writer

Born: Nov 24, 1876

Died: Sep 13, 1940

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Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire

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

Government Few Above Autocracy Bolshevism Below

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. Ameen Rihani

Work Nature Genius Personality Sunshine Wind Distant Follow Spirit Above Rises Divine Boy Shepherd Camera Trail Get Human Inform Whistling Human Personality Interpret Copy

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. Ameen Rihani

Soul World Our Mood Enter Would Temperament About Mystic Take Wire Allow Sure Often Refuge Much Less Help Pose

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. Ameen Rihani

Value Deficiencies Indeed States Futile Would Would-Be Various Purpose Individuals Import Underlying Without Always Sublime Impulse Forms Them Working

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. Ameen Rihani

Today Time History Man Important Vice Versa Once Hidden Significance Must See Seed Trivial Never Develop Individuals Most Understand Versa Die Nations The History Of The Most Important Vice Which Who Street Things

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. Ameen Rihani

Character Little Things First Our Self Sure Reveal Real Truly Trumpet Traits Essential Real Self Which Little Themselves Things Pose

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

Government Balance Society Properly Only Rod May Just Which

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism. Ameen Rihani

Other End Bolshevism

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

Revolution Politicians White Visionaries Poets Bled Glorified Intellectuals Sanctified

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted. Ameen Rihani

Time People Exhausted Nation Sense Heritage Those Above Only Small He True Ideal Idealist Primitive Message However His Articulate Same Them Races Even Below

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani

Truth Fashion Day Great History Age Mind Year Our Recognize Temper Following Poets Prophets Seldom Priests True Like Also Repeats Itself Artists Fancy Span Turn Us Seasons Slant Garments Present

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