Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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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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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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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