If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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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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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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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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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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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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