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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Rudyard Kipling

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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Ability Work Yourself
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
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
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation 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
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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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
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
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
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War

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