Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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'A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,' he said, 'but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.'
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They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
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Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
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I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Dear God, today I pray that I do the least amount of harm and the most amount of good. Amen.
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Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.
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"The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians"
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Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.
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I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
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What we ought to be trying to do is limit the harm that Christian communities and other religious communities can do. But we can't rely on them to make a world of difference. It's just not going to happen.
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We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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There is no harm in a man's cub.
