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 KIPLINGIf 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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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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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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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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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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