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Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore
Age: 80 †
Born: 1861
Born: May 6
Died: 1941
Died: August 7
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.
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Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
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If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
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Power said to the world, You are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.
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The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
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Boasting is only a masked shame it does not truly believe in itself.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
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Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, Never keep your mind aler.
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Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.
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Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.
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