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Glimpses of Bengal

Also known as Glimpses of Bengal: letters 1885 to 1895

A work by Rabindranath Tagore

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  • What korrents draws from it

    What beauty and peace human societies have comes from the daily performance of small duties, not big deeds and fine talk, Whether a more equal distribution of wealth is attainable is uncertain; if it is not, Providence is cruel, Metre gives verse a power to move people that vague and indefinite prose lacks …

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  • Connections

    Rabindranath Tagore

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. Surendranath Tagore, 19212
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. What beauty and peace human societies have comes from the daily performance of small duties, not big deeds and fine talk (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Whether a more equal distribution of wealth is attainable is uncertain; if it is not, Providence is cruel (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Metre gives verse a power to move people that vague and indefinite prose lacks (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The highest commandment is sympathy for all sentient beings; love is the foundation of all religion (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Once our pity is aroused, joining others in preying on life insults all that is good in us (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Town society is cruelly callous to the happiness and misery of other creatures compared with its own (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Rabindranath Tagore

Sources

  1. Glimpses of Bengal: letters 1885 to 1895 (tr. Surendranath Tagore, 1921) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Glimpses of Bengal: letters 1885 to 1895 (tr. Surendranath Tagore, 1921) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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