The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
RUDYARD KIPLINGCat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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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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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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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.
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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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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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