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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

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
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
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
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Forgiveness Learning Love Man Nuisance
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
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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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
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
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Best Honesty Talk Truth
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
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
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
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
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman

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