“ You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked ”
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923). copy citation
Author | Kahlil Gibran |
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Source | The Prophet |
Topic | good |
Date | 1923 |
Language | English |
Reference | The Prophet |
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Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Prophet_(Gibran) |
Context
“The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, And still more often the condemned isthe burden-bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also.”
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