Robert W. Service Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Winning, Saving, Easy

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• 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.

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  Mother, Writing, Mean

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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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• 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.

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  Criticism, France, Intense

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• Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night
  and the stars.

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  Music, Stars, Night

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.39, Dundurn

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• When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.

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  Children, War, Grief

  Robert William Service, “The Song Of The Pacifist”

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• I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

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  Littles, Yukon, Remember

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• Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

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  Years, Old Year, Progress

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

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