Rudyard Kipling Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
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“Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
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“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
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“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”
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“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
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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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“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”
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“Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”
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“San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.”
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“He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.”
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“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
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“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”
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“All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.”
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“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”
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“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”
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“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
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“Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.”
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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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“One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.”
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“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
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“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
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“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”
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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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“A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.”
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“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.”
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“Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.”
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“Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.”
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“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
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