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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.

Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Balance Inspirational Strength Team Work Wolf
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Glory Man Money Poor Position Yourself
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
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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Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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Call Darkness Feeling Morning Nature Night Open Shadow Sun Window Yourself
I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Death Forget Reading Subscription Yourself

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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