The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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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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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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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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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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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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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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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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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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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