Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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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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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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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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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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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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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
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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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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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The Navy is very old and very wise.