Rudyard Kipling Quotes about Sacrifice

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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Rudyard Kipling

Humble, Sacrifice

Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.314, Wordsworth Editions

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

Rudyard Kipling

Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

Rudyard Kipling

Children, Humble, Sacrifice

Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Stories and Poems”, p.488, Oxford University Press, USA