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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.


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The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

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The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

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The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

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Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

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A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.
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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
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Born: May 7, 1861
Died: August 7, 1941 (aged 80)
Bio: Rabindranath Tagore, also written Ravīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

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I have a heart with room for every joy.

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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

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A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

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