Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
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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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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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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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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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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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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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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.