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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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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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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Delight in the little things.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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