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.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREYou smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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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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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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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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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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