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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAn ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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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.
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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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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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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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