The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNow India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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 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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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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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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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