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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

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
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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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
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
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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Ability End Inspirational Open Possible
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
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
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
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
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
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
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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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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