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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA 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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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