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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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Mindset Teacher Teaching Word Young
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
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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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
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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Price Reason Try Yourself
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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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Dreams Master Yourself
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself

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