Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Thank You Quotes, Cutting Quotes

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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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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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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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

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

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

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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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Delight in the little things.

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

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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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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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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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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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