Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Art Quotes, Rude Quotes

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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

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I've taken my fun where I've found it.

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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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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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

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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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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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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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