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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPolitics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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Beware 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.
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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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