There's no jealousy in the grave.
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginnings,And never breathe a word about your loss...
I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.
Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!
All we have of freedomAll we use or know
A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.
Anything from Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight gli...
See.
We be of one blood, ye and I
This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me, I had travelled far enough from all paths of decent or godly living, yet there was in me, tho...
The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,
The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton – the big fat blade bone – and she looked at the wonderful...
So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.But that is a story for grown-ups.