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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.

Rudyard Kipling

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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Mindset Teacher Teaching Word Young
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Civilization Country Herself Old
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Animal Friendship Myself Service
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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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
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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Home Kind Man Travel World
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
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
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
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Price Reason Try Yourself
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
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
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
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
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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Call Darkness Feeling Morning Nature Night Open Shadow Sun Window Yourself
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Alone Fast Himself Independent One Liner Travel
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Dreams Master Yourself
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper

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