Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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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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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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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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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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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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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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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
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Believe the best of everybody.
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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
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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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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
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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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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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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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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?