Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Heart Quotes, Humble Quotes

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

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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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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

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

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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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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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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

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

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Funny how the new things are the old things.

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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

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The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

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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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