If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; 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!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
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But when we are ... RUDYARD KIPLING If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you t... RUDYARD KIPLING Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own RUDYARD KIPLING You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos RUDYARD KIPLING Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custo... RUDYARD KIPLING Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will... RUDYARD KIPLING When the Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried. RUDYARD KIPLING Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod. RUDYARD KIPLING All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago RUDYARD KIPLING To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned. RUDYARD KIPLING It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger'... RUDYARD KIPLING He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we f... RUDYARD KIPLING Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. RUDYARD KIPLING The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees. RUDYARD KIPLING Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of t... RUDYARD KIPLING . . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . . RUDYARD KIPLING And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall... 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 RUDYARD KIPLING