Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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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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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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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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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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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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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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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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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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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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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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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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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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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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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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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.