NO PAINS, NO GAINS.

BE COOL! BE CALM!

 

        

NO PAINS, NO GAINS.
If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

 

the poet Robert Herrick

Hesperides.1650 edition
  

 

-To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,

And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,

You may for ever tarry. -

 

 

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917)