Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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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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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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