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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Robert W. Service
I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
Robert W. Service
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
Robert W. Service
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire.
Robert W. Service
Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
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.
Robert W. Service
