Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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• All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
• If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
• If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think,…
• 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…
• 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…
• I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
• Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
• If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over…
• Believe the best of everybody.
• All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it.…
• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were…
• On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
• Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
• A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
• When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
• What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
• This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.
• One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene…
• As the dawn comes up like thunder.
• Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

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