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“No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.”

Rudyard Kipling

For All We Have and Are, Stanza 4.
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Context: No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.
There is but one task for all—
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?

Hope , Soul

“We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!”

Rudyard Kipling

The Secret of the Machines, Stanza 7.
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Context: But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings—
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!—
Our touch can alter all created things,
We are everything on earth—except The Gods!

Love , Lie , Forgiveness

“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling

Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
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Variant: Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

Rudyard Kipling Kim

Source: Kim

Life

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

Rudyard Kipling

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Variant: Father, Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.

People

“All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They!”

Rudyard Kipling

Source: Debits And Credits

People , Way , Thinking , Sea

“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).
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“We have fed our sea for a thousand years
And she calls us, still unfed,
Though there's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Dead http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/songdead.html, II, Stanza 1 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

Sea , Dead

“The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart;
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 2.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

God , Heart , Forgetting

“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

God , Forgetting

“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

Love , God , Truth , Youth

“If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law —
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 4.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

God , Law , Forgetting

“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
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Failure

“Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam—she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

The Widow at Windsor, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Call a truce, then, to our labours let us feast with friends and neighbours,
And be merry as the custom of our caste;
For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after,
We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.”

Rudyard Kipling

Christmas in India, Stanza 5.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

Sadness , Laughter , Past , Christmas

“When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!”

Rudyard Kipling

L'Envoi, Stanza 1 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

Lie , Faith , Painting

“And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!”

Rudyard Kipling

L'Envoi, Stanza 3 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

Money , God , Star , Joy

“Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Lesson, Stanza 1 (1899-1902).
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Business , People