In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
RUDYARD KIPLINGMany 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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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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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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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