Learn this of me, where’er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all. — Robert Herrick
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o’ercome When no force else can get the masterdom — Robert Herrick
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing’s so hard, but search will find it out. — Robert Herrick
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; that man lives twice that lives the first life well. — Robert Herrick
Treble that million, and when that is done, let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun. — Robert Herrick
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, submits his neck into a second yoke. — Robert Herrick
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! it’s not the fight that crowns us, but the end. — Robert Herrick
The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. — Robert Herrick
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; new things succeed, as former things grow old. — Robert Herrick