Money Gets The Mastery.

Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome,
When no force else can get the masterdom.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything

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Temptation.

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No Escaping The Scourging.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Upon Vinegar.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Mean Things Overcome Mighty.

By the weak'st means things mighty are o'erthrown.
He's lord of thy life who contemns his own.

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Adversity.

Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.

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Any Way For Wealth.

E'en all religious courses to be rich
Hath been rehers'd by Joel Michelditch:
But now perceiving that it still does please
The sterner fates, to cross his purposes;
He tacks about, and now he doth profess
Rich he will be by all unrighteousness;
Thus if our ship fails of her anchor hold
We'll love the divel, so he lands the gold.

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Money Makes The Mirth

When all birds else do of their music fail,
Money's the still-sweet-singing nightingale!

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No Man Without Money

No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim,
If favour or occasion help not him.

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A Will To Be Working.

Although we cannot turn the fervent fit
Of sin, we must strive 'gainst the stream of it;
And howsoe'er we have the conquest miss'd,
'Tis for our glory that we did resist.

Robert Herrick