If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith 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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Rudyard Kipling quotes & passages
2 passages by Rudyard Kipling, from Rewards and Fairies and The Light That Failed. Rudyard Kipling died in 1936, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English writer and poet (1865–1936), born in India. Wrote The Jungle Book and “If—”; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.
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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!If I were drowned in the deepest sea,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!I know whose tears would come down to me,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!If I were damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
Rudyard KiplingThe Light That Failed, 1891 · Dedication (Mother o' Mine)
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