If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
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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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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