There’s no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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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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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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