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Robert W. Service

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

Words, You, Say

Robert W. Service

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Mountain, Sand, You

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

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 quit- It’s the keeping your chin up that’s hard.

Robert W. Service

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

self, knowledge

Robert W. Service

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

Robert W. Service

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 quit- It’s the keeping your chin up that’s hard.

pressure, , diamonds,

Robert W. Service

This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.

Robert W. Service

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’s the forests where silence has lease;It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.

forests, nature, peace, silence, stilness, wilderness

Robert W. Service

A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

alaska, gold, loneliness

Robert W. Service

The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire

travel, traveling, wanderlust

Robert W. Service

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

lifelong, ones, plodding, quiet, race, steady, who, win