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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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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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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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