Robert W. Service Quotes

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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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• Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

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  Kindness, Heaven, Breaths

  Robert William Service, “Reptiles And Roses”

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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, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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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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  Travel, Heart, Men

  Robert William Service, “The Men That Don't Fit In”

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• Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

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  Wisest

  Robert William Service, “Silence”

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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.

  Robert W. Service

  Military, Grit, Quitting

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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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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  Lying, Looks, World

  Robert William Service, “The Lone Trail”

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  A promise made is a debt unpaid.

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  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

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  Winning, Race, Quiet

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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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!

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  Song, Cheer, War

  Robert William Service, “Carry On”

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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

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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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.

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  Failure, Winning, Men

  Robert William Service, “Making Good”

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• The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

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  Travel, Fire, Belly

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.

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  Cheer, Believe, Fighting

  Robert William Service, “Carry On”

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• Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

  Robert W. Service

  Life, Time, Thinking

  "It Is Later Than You Think" l. 56 (1921)

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• Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

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  Promise, Debt, Trails

  'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (1907)

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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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  People, Tough, Rough

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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

  Robert W. Service (2015). “Ballads of a Bohemian”, p.85, Read Books Ltd

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• Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

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  Eye, Goats, May

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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.

  Robert W. Service

  Running, Failure, Winning

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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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

  Dream, Men, Years

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.50, Dundurn

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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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  Sea, Doubt, Forgiving

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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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  Wall, Rain, Book

  Robert William Service, “Bookshelf”

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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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  Lonely, Sunset, Fate

  Robert William Service, “The Land God Forgot”

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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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  Healing, Dark, Night

  Robert William Service, “Weary”

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