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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
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
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
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 always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
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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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Alone Fast Himself Independent One Liner Travel
All 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!
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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
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
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself

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