Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Adventure Quotes

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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

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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

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

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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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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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And what should they know of England who only England know?

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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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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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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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