Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Land Quotes, Burma Quotes

This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Heart Quotes , Land Quotes

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Land Quotes , Doubt Quotes

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hands Quotes , Land Quotes

Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Land Quotes

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Land Quotes , Long Quotes

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

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The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

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Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Oxen Quotes , Land Quotes

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

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Land of lost gods and godlike men.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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