Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.