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Robert W. Service
16 quotes
Quotes
- “There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting So muc...”
- “There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tale...”
- “Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It...”
- “A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red,...”
- “It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to ...”
- “It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to q...”
- “I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --The other kind do...”
- “Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?Dismays me so, I've sadly pennedAnother book abo...”
- “This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit sur...”
- “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”
- “The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.”
- “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
- “Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.”
- “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
- “Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”
- “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”