Suffer That Thou Canst Not Shift.

Does fortune rend thee? Bear with thy hard fate:
Virtuous instructions ne'er are delicate.
Say, does she frown? still countermand her threats:
Virtue best loves those children that she beats.

Robert Herrick

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

English

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Virtue Is Sensible Of Suffering.

Though a wise man all pressures can sustain,
His virtue still is sensible of pain:
Large shoulders though he has, and well can bear,
He feels when packs do pinch him, and the where.

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Sufferance.

In the hope of ease to come,
Let's endure one martyrdom.

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Affliction.

God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert,
Though He may seem to overact His part:
Sometimes He strikes us more than flesh can bear;
But yet still less than grace can suffer here.

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On Fortune.

This is my comfort when she's most unkind:
She can but spoil me of my means, not mind.

Robert Herrick

Adversity.

Adversity hurts none, but only such
Whom whitest fortune dandled has too much.

Robert Herrick

Sufferings.

We merit all we suffer, and by far
More stripes than God lays on the sufferer.

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