Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Men Quotes

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

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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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It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

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What stands if freedom fall?

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

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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.

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

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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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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

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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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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

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

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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