LOSS FROM THE LEAST.
by Robert Herrick


GREAT men by small means oft are overthrown ;
He's lord of thy life who contemns his own.



[AJ Note:  cf. "Mean Things Overcome Mighty". ]

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 227.


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