Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
RUDYARD KIPLINGHe who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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