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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

Like, Nice, Sea, Sort, Thinking, Way

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

Crest, Detachment, Legion, Rest, Splits

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Ape, Dew, Eye, Filled, Hands, Men

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Forsake, Grey, Heart, Home, Old, Women

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;!

Blaming, Doubt, Head, Make, Men, Son

Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

Children, Eye, Eyes, Stars, Though, Vanish

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

Love, Love You, Noses, Outset, Ponies, Pony

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.

Blood, Endures, Fall, Fighting, House, Know

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

East, Man, Men, Ships, Suez, Worst

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Art, Joy, Leaves, Mighty, Rude, Sketch

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Giving, History, Naked, Peoples, Simple

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Gods, Littles, Politicians, Tin, Wheels

Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul. . . If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

Body, Change, Harsh, Man, Men, Soul

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Men, Mind, Tell, Tower, Towers, Wont

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

Mean, Men, Mere, Proof, Self, Waste

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Adam, Done, Gardening, God, Good, Religion

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

Animal, Attend, Befell, Beloved, Tame, Wild

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

Seen

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Birthday, Blaming, Keep, Losing, Men, Son

What stands if freedom fall?

Fall, Freedom, Ifs, Stands

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