Believe the best of everybody.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBelieve the best of everybody.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNever 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBeware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere 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 KIPLINGNot 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNever look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLINGTis 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
RUDYARD KIPLINGFor the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAsia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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