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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

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Spring, Teaching, Simple

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Children's Song"

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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

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War, Gun, Devil

Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

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Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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If England was what England seems,
An not the England of our dreams,
But only putty, brass, an' paint,
'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

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Dream, England, Paint

"The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling".

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

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Weed, Men, Garden

1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

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Lying, Two, Needs

"When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 1 (1892)

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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

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Men, Folly, Meddling

Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.747, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

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Heart, Men, Patriotism

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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Science, Self, Views

Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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Baby, Cat, Moon

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When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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Women, Pride, Scare

"The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

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Failure, England, Failing

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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

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Cells, Brain, Colour

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However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

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War, Two, World

Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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Kissing, Romantic Love, Men

The Story of the Gadsbys (1889) "Poor Dear Mamma"

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Smells are surer than sounds or sights
To make your heartstrings crack.

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Women, Heart, Sight

"The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling".

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Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

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Strong, Children, Good Luck

Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Jungle Book: Illustrated”, p.20, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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Mean, Winning, Gambling

Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.727, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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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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Heart, Sea, Fishing

Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Songs from Books”, p.35, tredition

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They 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.

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Years, Mind, Half

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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

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Daughter, Mother, Honesty

Departmental Ditties (1898 US ed.) "Our Lady of the Snows"

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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People, Understanding, Twelve

Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.

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Wine, Drunk, Water

Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.

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Pain, Science, Doctors

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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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Motivational, Heart, Long

Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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Born: December 30, 1865
Died: January 18, 1936
Occupation: Writer
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