Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Two Quotes, Want Something Quotes

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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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

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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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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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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

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Believe the best of everybody.

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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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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

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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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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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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

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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. 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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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

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