| 40 Famous Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
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“One good quote is worth a book”
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“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink”
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“A heathy garden is a reflection of a healthy soul.”
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“He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.”
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“It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!”
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“No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.”
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“Now it is not good for the Christian's health
To hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles,
And it weareth the Christian down.
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased--
And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East."”
Christianity Quotes Source: Naulahka (heading of ch. V)
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“When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.”
Future Quotes Source: When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
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“The present is big with the future.
[Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]”
Future Quotes Source: When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
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“What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare,
Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.”
Flags Quotes Source: The English King
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“The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire.
He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire,
And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise,
And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies.
Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand,
To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.”
Work Quotes Source: The Foreloper (Interloper), published in "Century Magazine", Apr., 1909, but first published in Lond
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“But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and
pen,
We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.”
Work Quotes Source: Imperial Rescript
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“And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall
blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate
star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They
Are!”
Work Quotes Source: L'Envoi, in "Seven Seas"
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“And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels
are on their side:
They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the
Mercies multiplied;
They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the
Promise runs;
They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and--the Lord He lays
it on Martha's sons!”
Work Quotes Source: The Sons of Mary
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“When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Barrack-Room Ballads--Introduction
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“Follow the Romany Patteran
Sheer to the Austral light,
Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,
Sweeping the sea floors white.”
Traveling Quotes Source: The Gypsy Trail
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“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne,
He travels the fastest who travel alone.”
Traveling Quotes Source: The Winners
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“Take up the White Man's burden.”
Duty Quotes Source: The White Man's Burden
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“Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed,
Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.”
Royalty Quotes Source: The Old Issue, in the "Five Nations"
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“'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.”
Royalty Quotes Source: The Widow at Windsor
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“In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas
O'er half the world to run--
With a cheated crew, to league anew
With the Goth and the shameless Hun.”
Germany Quotes Source: The Rowers, in "The Times", Dec. 22, 1902
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“We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?”
Art Quotes Source: The Conundrum of the Workshops
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“And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south
With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;
Four things greater than all things are--
Women and Horses and Power and War.”
Talk Quotes Source: Ballad of the King's Jest
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“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
Dogs Quotes Source: The Power of the Dog
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“But that's another story.”
Story telling Quotes Source: Mulvaney--Soldiers Three
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