Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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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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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
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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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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?
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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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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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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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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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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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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.