Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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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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Every woman knows all about everything.
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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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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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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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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!
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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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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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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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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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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.