Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Religious Quotes, People Quotes

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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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

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

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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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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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There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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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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