Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
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Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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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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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
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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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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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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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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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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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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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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.
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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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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.