Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Captains Quotes, Ships Quotes

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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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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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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

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The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

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