The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll 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!
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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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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