Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
RUDYARD KIPLINGHe travels the fastest who travels alone.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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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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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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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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