Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
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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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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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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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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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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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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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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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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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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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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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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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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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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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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!