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Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet

1865–1936

44 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Women and Animals.

Though I’ve belted you and flayed you,
By the livin’ Gawd that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Gunga Din (1890), Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896), Gunga Din, Stanza 5.In context
- Character
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If— (1910)In context
- Advice
- Character
If you can dream⁠—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think⁠—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
If— (1910)In context
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And⁠—which is more⁠—you’ll be a Man, my son!
If— (1910)In context
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings⁠—nor lose the common touch
If— (1910)In context
- Character
- Virtue

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