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 KIPLINGHumble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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