LOSS FROM THE LEAST
Great men by small means oft are overthrown; He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.
Robert Herrick
Great men by small means oft are overthrown; He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.
Great men can be overthrown by remarkably small things—that’s the first crisp warning in Herrick’s couplet. But the second line hits with an almost ruthless psychological insight: the person who truly owns your life is the one who holds his own life in contempt.
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