He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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A 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
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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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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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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If 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.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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