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Rabindranath Tagore quotes

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“You women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she loses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“For the worthy there are many rewards on God's earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“You must come to violent conflicts and make a noise in order to produce your sparks. But their disconnected flashes merely assist your pride, and not your clear vision.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“I said within myself that his language had caught fire from my eyes; for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“My husband used to say, that man and wife are equal in love because of their equal claim on each other. I never argued the point with him, but my heart said that devotion never stands in the way of true equality; it only raises the level of the...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“God may grant us gifts, but the merit of being able to take and hold them must be our own. Alas for the boons that slip through unworthy hands!” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“When man was being made, the Creator was a schoolmaster—His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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