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 KIPLINGHe who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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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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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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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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