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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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success
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
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Earth Effort. Listen End Heaven Tree
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World
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
Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.
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Dream Friendship Home Myself
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Appearance Scare Stars
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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Death Joy Smile World 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
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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Light Love Man Myself See Sunrise World
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Feeling Myself Smile Wait Yourself
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Music Oneself Poetry
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
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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Darkness Greatness Sea Silence Truth
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Dance Perfection
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Deep Enough Moments Time

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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