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Quotes from Stray Birds — Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941 India

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

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When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

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Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.

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When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

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God finds himself by creating.

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WE live in this world when we love it.

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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.