Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Children Quotes, Humble Quotes

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

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But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

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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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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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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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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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Delight in the little things.

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

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