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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

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
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Bright Care Earth Lying Ourselves Time Walk Wonderful
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
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Civilization Country Herself Old
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
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself
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

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