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Miscellaneous Quotations K-L

"THE DISCIPLE
He that hath a Gospel,
To loose upon Mankind,
Though he serve it utterly -
Body, soul, and mind -
Though he go to Calvary
Daily for its gain -
It is His Disciple
Shall make his labour vain.

He that hath a Gospel,
For all earth to own -
Though he etch it on the steel,
Or carve it on the stone -
Not to be misdoubted
Through the after-days -
It is His Disciple
Shall read it many ways.

It is His Disciple
(Ere Those Bones are dust)
Who shall change the Charter,
Who shall split the Trust -
Amplify distinctions,
Rationalise the Claim,
Preaching that the Master
Would have done the same.

It is His Disciple
Who shall tell us how
Much the Master would have scrapped
Had he lived till now -
What he would have modified
Of what he said before -
It is His Disciple
Shall do this and more ...

He that hath a Gospel
Whereby Heaven is won
(Carpenter, or Cameleer,
Or Maya's dreaming son),
Many swords shall pierce Him,
Mingling blood with gall;
But His Own Disciple
Shall wound Him worst of all!"
Rudyard Kipling, "The Church That Was At Antioch", in: Collected Stories (London, 1994, pp.888/889).
"Many there are, who, though endowed with the best understandings, have yet an inertness, an insensibility to all that is brilliant and accomplished; and who, though correct in their observations, yet fatigue in the long intercourse of life by the sameness of their thoughts."
Lady Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon (London, 1995, pp.52/53).
"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend."
Charles Lamb, "The Two Races of Men" The Essays of Elia (London, 1903, p.32).
"And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition."
Charles Lamb, "All Fool's Day" The Essays of Elia (London, 1903, p.62).
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