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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
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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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
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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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine

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