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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.

Rudyard Kipling

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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God One Liner Perspective Politics Vehicle
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
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
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
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Glory Man Money Poor Position Yourself
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself

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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