We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere’s no jealousy in the grave.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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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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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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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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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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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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