If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother oโ mine, O mother oโ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother oโ mine, O mother oโ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother oโ mine, O mother oโ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother oโ mine, O mother oโ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother oโ mine, O mother oโ mine!
Rudyard KiplingAsia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard KiplingIt thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
Rudyard KiplingDoctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
Rudyard KiplingThe python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
Rudyard Kipling