Robert Service Short Quotes

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

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Mud is mankind in the moulding,
Heaven's mystery unfolding

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

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The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

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

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Just have one more try—it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

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

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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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There's the wretched rent to pay,
Yet I glower at pen and ink:
Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray,
It is later than you think!

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Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;
From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day

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Some say that the Northern Lights are the glare of the Arctic ice and snow; And some that it's electricity, and nobody seems to know.

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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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But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true,
That one of you is a hound of hell... and that one is Dan McGrew.

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Some say God was tired when he made it [the land of Alaska];
Some say it's a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there's some as would trade it
For no land on earth—and I'm one.

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The waves have a story to tell me, As I lie on the lonely beach; Chanting aloft in the pine-tops, The wind has a lesson to teach; But the stars sing an anthem of glory I cannot put into speech.

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