We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
Tag: world loss universe tea repair
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard KiplingTag: quotations
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
Rudyard Kipling[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....'
So it comes with all faiths.
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.
Rudyard KiplingYou perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Rudyard KiplingIf 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;!
Tag: advice ataraxy philosophical coming-of-age fathers-and-sons
My heart is so tired
Rudyard KiplingIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.
Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods
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