If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew. To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there's nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!
Rudyard KiplingAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer, Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: December 30, 1865
- Died: January 18, 1936
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
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