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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
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Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Deep Enough Moments Time
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Goodness Himself Time
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Death Light Morning
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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Kind Man
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Deep Myself Song
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Earth Effort. Listen End Heaven Tree
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Belief Darkness Deep Myself Stars
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Beautiful Flower Herself Yourself
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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Life Stars Sun Tears Yourself
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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God Myself Right Willing Worship
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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Believe Creation Mind People Principle Reflection World
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Beautiful Love See
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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Leaving Season Sing Summer
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Earth Generosity Reward

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