Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

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Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

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The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

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

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Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

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O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

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If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

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Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

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The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

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The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

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Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

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Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

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Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

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The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

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Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

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With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

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Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

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Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.

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A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

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There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

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I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

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The night is like a dark child just born of her mother day. Millions of stars crowding round its cradle watch it, standing still, afraid lest it should wake up.

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I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

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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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