“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver and . . . die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can," And selfdissolution is barred. In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow... It's the hellservedforbreakfast that's hard. "You're sick of the game!" Well, now, that's a shame. You're young and you're brave and you're bright. "You've had a raw deal!" I know — but don't squeal, Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight. 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 keepingyourchinup that's hard. It's easy to cry that you're beaten — and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight — Why, that's the best game of them all! And though you come out of each gruelling bout, All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have one more try — it's dead easy to die, It's the keepingonliving that's hard. ”
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“ I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins The other kind don't matter. ”
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“ 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 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. ”
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“ Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. ”
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“ Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down, yet grasped at glory, Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole? 'Done things' just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story, Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul? Have you seen God in His splendours, heard the text that nature renders? (You'll never hear it in the family pew.) The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things– Then listen to the wild–it's calling you. ”
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“ There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. ”
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“ I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins The other kind don't matter. ”
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“ No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. ”
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“ The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. ”
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“ The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. ”
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“ This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. ”
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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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“ 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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“ It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
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“ The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. ”
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“ The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. ”
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“ It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
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“ It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
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“ The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. ”
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