Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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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 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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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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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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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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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