Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Life Quotes, Running Quotes

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

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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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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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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

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

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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

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

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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

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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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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

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The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

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