Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Eye Quotes, Heart Quotes

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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

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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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There's no jealousy in the grave.

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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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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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(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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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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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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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

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