Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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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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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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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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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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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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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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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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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.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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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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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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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.