Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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 am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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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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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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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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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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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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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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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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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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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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