Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAsia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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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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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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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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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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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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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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