This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIn the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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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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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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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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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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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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