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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGHumble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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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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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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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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