The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard KiplingOh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
Rudyard KiplingHear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
Rudyard KiplingHowever the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
Rudyard KiplingToo much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard KiplingIt was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
Rudyard KiplingAnd when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
Rudyard KiplingThey copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
Rudyard KiplingNever praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
Rudyard KiplingIf I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard KiplingIf 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;!
Rudyard KiplingIf you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
Rudyard KiplingWe are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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