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This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
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I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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Take of English earth as much
As either hand may rightly clutch.
In the taking of it breathe
Prayer for all who lie beneath.
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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;
Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise,
Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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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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Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...
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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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An' that blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones.
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One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes.... That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent...
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Just statin' evidential facts beyon' all argument.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shellburred cables creep. Here is the womb of the world — here on the tie-ribs of earth Words, and the words of men, flicker and flutter and beat.
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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
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Who shall doubt "the secret hid Under Cheops' pyramid" Was that the contractor did Cheops out of several million?
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To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching the peacock to sing.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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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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