Devil Quote by Robert W. Service

“I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.”

Robert W. Service

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Devil Doubt Forgiving God forgives Ink Kind Matter No doubt Sea Sin

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“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. "Please make me," says some wistful tome, "A wee bit of yourself." And so I take my treasure home, And tuck it in a shelf. And now my very shelves complain; They jam and over-spill. They say: "Why…

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“The Call of the Wild They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, They have soaked you in convention through and through; They have put you in a showcase; you're a credit to their teaching– But can't you hear the wild?–it's calling you. Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide…

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Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

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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…

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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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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

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It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And…

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

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Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped…

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

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“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?- Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.”

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Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The…

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and…

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This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but…

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“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of…

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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

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If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him…

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“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was…

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