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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions
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“And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions”

Rabindranath Tagore

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Gitanjali
Date
1912
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Rabindranath Tagore — Author and self-translator · from Bengali
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Tagore connects devotion with conduct: inward belief is meant to become visible through what a person actually does rather than remain only an interior feeling.

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Gitanjali, poem 4, in Tagore’s own prose translations from Bengali; Project Gutenberg #7164. The omitted continuation explicitly attributes the strength to act to the divine addressee, so the line remains religious rather than generic productivity advice.

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