Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?