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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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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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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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