Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Work Quotes, Garden Quotes

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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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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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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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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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

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Payday came and with it beer

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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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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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