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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.

Rudyard Kipling

There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Bright Care Earth Lying Ourselves Time Walk Wonderful
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
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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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
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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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
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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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
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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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
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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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
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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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk

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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