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!”… Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be […]
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Where there are Irish there’s loving and fighting, And when we stop either, it’s Ireland no more!
All India knows of the Calcutta Municipality; but has any one thoroughly investigated the Big Calcutta Stink? There is only one. Benares is fouler in point of concentrated, pent-up muck, and there are local stenches in Peshawar which are stronger than the B.C.S.; but, for duffesed, soul-sickening expansiveness, the reek of Bombay beats both Benares […]
He was a Sunnyasi – a houseless, wandering mendicant, depending on his neighbors for his daily bread; and so long as there is a morsel to divide in India neither priest nor beggar starves.
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger’s nose till he is clear of Asia again.
My privy and well drain into each other After the custom of Christendie… Fevers and fluxes are wasting my mother. Why has the Lord afflicted me? The Saints are helpless for all I offer – So are the clergy I used to fee. Henceforward I keep my cash in my coffer, Because the Lord has […]
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, he wakes The drumming guns that – […]
God bless the master of this house, And all who sleep therein! And guard the fens from pirate folk, And keep us from all sin, To walk in honesty, good sirs, Of thought and deed and word! Which shall befriend our latter end… And who shall judge the Lord?
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
