"A lamp can only light another lamp when……" — Rabindranath Tagore
"A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame."
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402 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore has 402 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
- He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares…
- You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
- No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
- Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
- The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before…
- In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not.…
- Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through…
- Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
- He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts…
- The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.
- Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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