“Most people: they take birth. Earn a living, and, then, they die. Never follow them.”
"Hollywood" (1942)
quoted in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 382
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
homily at the celebration of the Mass to mark the Golden Jubilee anniversary of Dei Verbum https://cnsng.org/makepdf.php?tab=1365 (November 23, 2015)
“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”
Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Stanza 4.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
Context: If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
Dedication, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
