Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAsia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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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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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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