190 ordspråk av Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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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!
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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!'
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If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
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If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price
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Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?
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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
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.
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