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What beauty and peace human societies have comes from the daily performance of small duties, not big deeds and fine talk
Drawn from what Rabindranath Tagore said
What Rabindranath Tagore actually said
- Rabindranath Tagore Bengali poet and philosopher (1861 to 1941)
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.
Where this was said
↗Glimpses of Bengal: letters 1885 to 1895 (tr. Surendranath Tagore, 1921)gutenberg.org
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