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Now this is the Law of the Jungle-as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. The White Man's Burden, Stanza 1 (1899).
Rudyard Kipling
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man.
Rudyard Kipling
The Three in One, the One in Three Not so To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
Rudyard Kipling
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling
Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
Rudyard Kipling
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
Rudyard Kipling
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Rudyard Kipling
When you write `native, 'who do you mean? The Mahommedan who hates the Hindu; the Hindu who hates the Mahommedan; the Sikh who loathes both; or the semi-anglicised product of our Indian colleges who is hated and despised by Sikh, Hindu and Mahommedan.
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[16 October 18951: it is my fortune to have been born and to a large extent brought up among those whom white men call `heathen'; and while I recognise the paramount duty of every white man to follow the teachings of his creed and conscience as `a debtor to do the whole law,' it seems to me cruel that white men, whose governments are armed with the most murderous weapons known to science, should amaze and confound their fellow creatures with a doctrine of salvation imperfectly understood by themselves and a code of ethics foreign to the climate and instincts of those races whose most cherished customs they outrage and whose gods they insult.
Rudyard Kipling
* For heathen heart that puts her trust in reeking tube and iron shard, all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding calls not thee to guard for frantic boast and foolish word thy mercy on thy people lord!
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Yet instant to fore-shadowed need The eternal balance swings; That winged men the Fates may breed So soon as Fate hath wings. These shall possess Our littleness, And in the imperial task (as worthy) lay Up our lives' all to piece one giant day.
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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?
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We and They, Stanza 1.
Rudyard Kipling
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?”.
Rudyard Kipling
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