Rudyard Kipling - Love Quotes

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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove beloved over all.

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We have done with Hope and Honor, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born,
Whose plinths are laid at midnight, and whose streets are packed at morn;
And here come hired youths and maids that feign to love or sin
In tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten tin.

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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

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God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Belovèd over all.

Rudyard Kipling
Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

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If 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!

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Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.

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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

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For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!

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But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings—
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!—
Our touch can alter all created things,
We are everything on earth—except The Gods!

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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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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

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