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;!
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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;!
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 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.
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 KIPLINGI’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLINGLiterature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll 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!
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBe slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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 KIPLINGAll things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere’s no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLINGYou must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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