Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIt’s always best to tell the truth.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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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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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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