Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

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The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

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Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

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The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

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Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

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The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

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To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

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

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I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

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Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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