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“She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.”

Rudyard Kipling

“There is but one task for all --
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"

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Rudyard Kipling

Source: Complete Verse

“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

Rudyard Kipling

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”

Rudyard Kipling

“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

Source: The Jungle Books

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”

Rudyard Kipling

Source: The Light That Failed [Illustrated]

“They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree.
Do you think he would squander souls?”

Rudyard Kipling

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

On the Strength of a Likeness.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'
Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

Rudyard Kipling Kim

Source: Kim

“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed

Source: The Light That Failed

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

Source: Plain Tales from the Hills

“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

Rudyard Kipling book Soldiers Three

Soldiers Three, The Winners (L&#x27;Envoi: What Is the Moral?) http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/winners.html, Stanza 1 (1888). <br class="br">Other works

“In the flush of the hot June prime,
O'ersleek flood-tides afire,
I hear him hurry the chime
To the bidding of checked Desire;
Till the sweated ringers tire
And the wild bob-majors die.
Could I wait for my turn in the godly choir?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not I!”

Rudyard Kipling The Bell Buoy

The Bell Buoy.
Other works

“There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

Kaa's hunting.
The Jungle Book (1894)

“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.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Second Jungle Book

Stanza 3.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)

“Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed—go back with an open eye,
“And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:
“That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one—
“And the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!”

Rudyard Kipling

Tomlinson, l. 58-61.
Other works

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

Rudyard Kipling The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
Variant: And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

“We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.
Will you never let us go?”

Rudyard Kipling

Song of the Galley-Slaves http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p4/galleyslaves.html, l. 1-2 (1893). <br class="br">Other works

“Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be,
And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!”

Rudyard Kipling

The Prairie http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/prairie.html, Stanza 5. <br class="br">Other works