Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBeware 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Delight in the little things.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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