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Rudyard Kipling was a British poet, short-story writer, and novelist, known for his works reflecting British imperialism and his experiences in India. His most famous works include 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim'.

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All Men Ifs Knows World Heart May People Lying Two Long Life Pay War Way Dog Ends Made Soul Thinking Done

Famous Rudyard Kipling Quotes

“Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die”

Long Eye Time Dies Cities Flower Thrones Transience

Book:Rudyard Kipling

Source: Rudyard Kipling

“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.”

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”

Kind Long Hard Done Night House Sides Walks Tree Baby Walking Moon Cat Woods Get Up Be Kind Wet Roof Tails Mice Bargains Lone

Book:Just So Stories and the Jungle Book

Source: Just So Stories and the Jungle Book

“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!'”

Ifs Heart Long Motivational Turns Force Gone Nerves

Book:Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

“They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?”

Thinking Long Soul Earth Tree Red Reincarnation Leafs Back Again

Book:The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

“Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.”

Knows Feels Long Together Lasts Fall Fighting House Blood Mines Promise Endure Pillars Armageddon

Book:Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…

Source: Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…

“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago”

Book: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

Source: 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

“Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.”

Long Youth Habit Birthday Young Birthday Witty Birthday

Book:Plain Tales from the Hills

Source: Plain Tales from the Hills

“Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.”

Want Life Mean Long Has Beens Enough Motivational Pay Self Help What You Want Getting What You Want

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.”

People Long Spirit New York Reflection Management Angry Outcomes Comparison Pigs Majesty Reckless Barbarism Extravagance Trough

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.”

Firsts Long Hands Felt Answers Sea Sky Blue Spokes Slides Back And Forth Sailor Blue Sky Keel

Book:Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated): Including his early autobiographical novel Stalky & Co.

Source: Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated): Including his early autobiographical novel Stalky & Co.