Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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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 is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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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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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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