"O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when ‘the heathen’ pray To Buddha at Kamakura!"
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"I am an old man! I ask with my head between thy feet, O Fountain of Wisdom."
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"It is my new chela disciplediscipledisciple that is gone away from me, and I know not where he is."
"Sometimes he would tell Kim to watch a man who had nothing whatever to do with horses: to follow him for one whole day and report every soul with whom he talked."
"‘He is here,’ said Kim, hitting a bad-tempered camel on the nose."
"‘God’s curse on all unbelievers!’ said Mahbub."
"‘Nothing. I am now that holy man’s disciple; and we go a pilgrimage together - to Benares, he says.'"
"‘Little Friend of all the World,’ said he, ‘what is this?’"
"‘But for whom dost thou work? Why come to me?’ The voice was harsh with suspicion."
"‘All Umballa is on the same errand. Get hence. They go in now with the soup.'"
"‘It is a very big dinner,’ said Kim, looking at the plates."
"‘Pity it is that these and such as these could not be freed from -‘"
"‘Nay, then would only evil people be left on the earth, and who would give us meat and shelter?’ quoth Kim."
"‘Let him live out his life.’ The coiled thing hissed and half opened its hood. ‘May thy release come soon, brother!’"
"That is for thee to say. I am old, and a stranger - far from my own place."
"Sometimes men laughed, but more often heard the story out to the end and offered them a place in the shade, a drink of milk, and a meal."
"This is a good land - the land of the South!"
"All the country of the South is good - a great and a terrible world."
"I am only a beggar’s brat, as the Eye of Beauty has said."
"Forty years ago that might have been said, and not without truth. Ay. thirty years ago."
"It is a great and terrible world. What is the device on the flag?"
"I am but the Holy One’s disciple. When he has eaten perhaps he will come."
"Two arrows in the quiver are better than one; and three are better still."
"Ah," drawled Kim, with infinite contempt, "they prophesied!"
"The husbands of the talkative have a great reward hereafter."
"I see," said Father Victor gravely. "But he can’t go on in that old man’s company. It would be different, Kim, if you were not a soldier’s son."
"All Desire is red - and evil. I will do penance and find my River alone."
"It is no wrong to pay for learning. To help the ignorant to wisdom is always a merit."
"Two or three hundred rupees a year." Father Victor was long past any sense of amazement.
"He says you are a good man. He says the other man is a fool."
"Meantime, if the Sahibs were to be impressed, he would do his best to impress them."
"No; I am Kim. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?"
"It does not profit to tell lies to Mahbub Ali."
"Trust a Brahmin before a snake, and a snake before an harlot, and an harlot before a Pathan, Mahbub Ali."
"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."
"A day and a half have I waited, not because I was led by any affection towards thee - that is no part of the Way."
"Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the Wheel."
"I am all alone in this land; I know not where I go nor what shall befall me."
"I would go without shirts or shoes, Friends, tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head."
"Child, thou art beyond all dispute the most shameless son of Shaitan that I have ever known."
"Allah kerim!" said Mahbub Ah. "Wilt thou some day sell my head for a few sweetmeats if the fit takes thee?"
"A fair land - a most beautiful land is this of Hind - and the land of the Five Rivers is fairer than all."
"There is no need to tell more than is necessary at any one time."
"Remember, the wheel of life remains to turn."
"He who knows and knows that he knows is wise - follow him."
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to give everything you have to the winds."
"To understand the ways of the great, one must observe their actions."
"Every day is a new day for learning, every moment a new moment for gaining wisdom."
"A man can always come by those - especially across the Border."
"My son, said he, ‘what need of words between us? But is not the little gun a delight?'"
"‘True: but one pace beyond the Border, men are wiser."
"‘All worthless - all worthless,’ said the child, lips cracking with fever."
"‘To heal the sick is to acquire merit; but first one gets knowledge."
"‘I was made wise by thee, Holy One,’ said Kim."
"It is a long road to the feet of the One; but thither do we all travel."
"In all India is no one so alone as I! If I die today, who shall bring the news -and to whom? If I live and God is good, there will be a price upon my head, for I am a Son of the Charm - I, Kim."
"‘It is no more than a fever,’ said Kim. ‘The child is not well fed.’"
"The Search, I say, is sure. If need be, the River will break from the ground before us."
"We are together, and all things are as they were - Friend of all the World - Friend of the Stars - my chela!"
"Surely old folk are as children. They desire a matter - behold, it must be done at once, or they fret and weep!"
"The thing was done. A Cause was put out into the world, and, old or young, sick or sound, knowing or unknowing, who can rein in the effect of that Cause?"
"Chela, this is a great and a terrible world."
"I think it good. What is there to eat? I have not eaten since yesterday even."
"In the night the fever broke and the sweat came. Feel here - his skin is fresh and new!"
"Thank the Gods of the Jains, brother. The fever is indeed broken."
"We go now together upon the Search whereof I have often spoken. I waited till my chela was ripe. Behold him! We go North."
"To abstain from action is well - except to acquire merit."
"I am only a beginner at the Game, that is sure."
"It is more, chela. Thou hast loosed an Act upon the world, and as a stone thrown into a pool so spread the consequences thou canst not tell how far."
"This house is a cattle-pound, as it were, for all charlatans and priests."
"Their stock-in-trade is a little coloured water and a very great shamelessness."
"To importune the wise out of season is to invite calamity."
"None but the ignorant deny the value of charms."
"None but the ignorant deny the value of medicines."
"The Sahibs never grow old. They dance and they play like children when they are grandfathers."
"I do not give my sick the mere ink in which a charm is written, but hot and rending drugs which descend and wrestle with the evil."
"To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching the peacock to sing."
"The world is not a permanent nor an enduring entity."
"It is not good to be alone in a world of marvels that were meant to be shared."
"The stars are not kinder than men, but they, at least, do not cheat us."
"Life is very full of sex, or else very empty. It depends upon the glass with which one looks."
"All right, sar! All right! Don’t shoot. I go to rescue."
"Go back to the coolies. They have the baggage. The papers are in the kilta with the red top, but look through all."
"If you shoot, they will descend and annihilate us."
"By Jove! This is dam’-tight place, but I think it is self-defence."
"Come down here and assist to resuscitate. We are all up a tree, I tell you."
"Just and sure is the Wheel, swerving not a hair!"
"Let the priest-beaters go in bondage to their own acts."
"Not for five years was I Yankling Sahib’s shikarri without knowing that medicine."
"I kicked him in the groin as we went downhill. Would I had killed him!"
"If the worst comes to the worst, I shall tell Yankling Sahib, who is a man of a merry mind, and he will laugh."
"Who ever heard of Fostum Sahib, or Yankling Sahib, or even the little Peel Sahib that sits up of nights to shoot serow - I say, who ever heard of these Sahibs coming into the hills without a down-country cook, and a bearer, and - and all manner of well-paid, high-handed and oppressive folk in their tail?"
"My Sahib said he would return and wed me - yes, wed me. He went away... but he never returned."
"I was Ker-lis-ti-an and spoke English - as the Sahibs speak it. Yes. My Sahib said he would return and wed me - yes, wed me. He went away - I had nursed him when he was sick - but he never returned."
"Thy Gods are lies; thy works are lies; thy words are lies. There are no Gods under all the Heavens. I know it."
"Curse me? Thou canst neither curse nor bless!"
"I was foolish. Who is thy woman in the Plains? Fair or black? I was fair once."