Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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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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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
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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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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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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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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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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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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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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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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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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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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 man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.