Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll 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!
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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