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Sing, for faith and hope are high-
None so true as you and I-
Sing the Lovers' Litany:
"Love like ours can never die!"
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Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
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We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: It's clever, but is it Art?
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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.
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When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins—
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins!
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"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said.
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The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed Bucket shop|bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.
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Take up the White Man's burden—
And reap his old reward—
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard.
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Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy 'ow's yer soul?'
But it's 'Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll.
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
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In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wiggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it.
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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When the cholera comes — as it will past a doubt — Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout, For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out, An' it crumples the young British soldier. Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier.
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The masterless man... afflicted with the magic of the necessary words.... Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
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We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran his brother down, you know, As we run men down to-day.
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;
Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.
On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Born:
December 30, 1865
Died:
January 18, 1936
(aged 70)
Bio:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Known for:
The Jungle Book (1894)
Just So Stories (1902)
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1893)
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