Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Weed Quotes, Men Quotes

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

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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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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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