God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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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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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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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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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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Delight in the little things.
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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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