Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

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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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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

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