"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily……" — Rudyard Kipling
"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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Rudyard Kipling
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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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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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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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…
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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More Blades Quotes
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
— Oksana Baiul
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
— James M. Barrie
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
— John Calvin
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Steel True, Blade Straight.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his…
— Li-Young Lee
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Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football…
— Brendan Shanahan
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
— Thomas A. Edison
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine…
— Laozi
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
— Steven Pressfield
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