Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Quotes from Stray Birds — Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941 India
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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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 fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Never be afraid of the moments—thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.