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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNo 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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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