Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Morning Quotes, Dark Quotes

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

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Each dog barks in his own yard!

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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

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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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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

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And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

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Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

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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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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

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it's always best to tell the truth.

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

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