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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'


Rudyard Kipling

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RUDYARD KIPLING Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall kee...
RUDYARD KIPLING Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...
RUDYARD KIPLING I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
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