Quotes by Robert W. Service - Page 1

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Trust
Wisdom
Truth
Betrayal
Debt
Honesty
Made
Promise
Unpaid
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Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Eye
Goats
May
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
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Wisest
Words
Sure
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The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
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Travel
Belly
Fire
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I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
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Littles
Remember
Yukon
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Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
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Life
Time
Thinking
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
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Success
Lifelong
Quiet
Race
Steady
Winning
Win
Plodding
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The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
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Men
Bows
Knows
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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
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Debt
Promise
Trails
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Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
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Music
Night
Stars
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Anger
Brainy
Adversity
Climbing
Grain
Mountain
Sand
Ahead
Out
Grain Of Sand
Shoe
Wears
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Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
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Grit
Military
Quitting
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
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Long
Song
Wine
Bill
Full
None
Though
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Failure
Men
Winner
Winning
Success Failure Man
Thinks
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Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.
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Dark
Healing
Night
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Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Kindness
Breaths
Heaven
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Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Believe
Cheer
Fighting
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
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Easy
Extremes
Gait
Saving
Spending
Winning
Avoid
Ending
Moderate
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This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
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Being Strong
Law
Survival
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
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Book
Fire
Honest
Pipe
Open
Few
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I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.
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Doubt
Forgiving
Sea
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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Bedrock
People
Rough
Tough
Society Better People
Meet
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The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.
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Fate
Lonely
Sunset
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Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.
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Old Year
Progress
Years
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I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.
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Book
Rain
Wall
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
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Mean
Mother
Writing
Verse
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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
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Artificial
Criticism
Dislike
France
Free Life
Intense
Interference
Neighbors
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Inspirational
Success
Climbing
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When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.
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War
Children
Grief
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The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.
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Looks
Lying
World
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There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
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Men
Travel
Heart
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And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
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Running
Failure
Winning
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It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!
Robert W. Service / Poet
War
Cheer
Song
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Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master, And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe, We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere, The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.
Robert W. Service / Poet
Dream
Men
Years
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