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Quotes from ServiceWise & OtherWise — Robert Service

1874–1958 Canada

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Dignity is a tin god in the temple of bunk.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Nature is the nest professor in the end.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

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

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Wisdom is peace, peace wisdom.
Both are born of a humble heart and a nourished gratitude.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

The world is full of scribbling Nobodies
who think they’re scribbling Somebodies.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

After fifty don’t go to a funeral if you can avoid it.
It’s bad enough to go to your own when times comes.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Marriage is a bachelor’s punishment for his sins

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Oh it is good to ride and run,
To roam the reenwood
wild and free;
To hunt, to idle in the sun,
To leap into the laughing sea

ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Service (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.