Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by think of it looking on We As only a sort of They!
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
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Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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What stands if freedom fall?
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.