We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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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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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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 brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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