Success Quote by Robert Service

Service isn’t selling prudence as a stiff moral duty; he’s pitching it as a strategy for a life that doesn’t collapse under its own drama. “Avoid extremes” lands like the opening of a pub-side proverb, but the real seduction is in how quickly the advice turns bodily: “An equable and easy gait.” Moderation isn’t abstract virtue here, it’s posture, pace, breath. Service makes thrift and generosity feel less like economic decisions and more like a rhythm you can keep without injury.

The intent is practical, almost managerial: don’t let either miserliness or recklessness turn your future into a rescue operation. “In saving and in spending” is a neat pairing that refuses the usual sermonizing. He’s not glorifying hoarding; he’s warning against the volatility that comes from treating money as either a fortress or a bonfire. The subtext is class-coded and hard-earned: people who live close to the edge don’t need romantic extremity, they need survivable habits.

Context matters. Service wrote in an era of boom-and-bust capitalism, when fortunes could evaporate and “easy endings” were not guaranteed. His popular verse often favored clear counsel over ornament, and this reads like a distilled survival lesson from a world where hardship was common and dignity was improvisational. The closing promise - “will win an easy ending” - isn’t metaphysical. It’s the modest, unsentimental hope that if you live without lurching, you won’t die cleaning up the mess.