Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
RABINDRANATH TAGORELove adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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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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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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