Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 73:23^6.

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for whoshall bring himtoseewhat shall be after him?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:22.

Whatevereachmancanseparatelydo, withouttrespassing upon others, he has a right to dofor himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all whichsociety, with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favour.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Essays: Second Series,'Gifts'.

A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents onwhom hehas a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  An Essay on the Principle of Population (revised edn).

Where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction; for none sure will claim in hell Prece¤  dence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.

-Milton,John
  Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.30^5.

Worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claimto one'sportionoftheearth; tohave lived and died as one had been born, unnecessaryand unaccommodated.

-Naipaul, Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad)
A House for Mr. Biswas, prologue.

May the hard hand of a vexatious need Oppress and grind you; till at last you find The curse of disobedience all your portion.

-Otway,Thomas
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

How little, mark! that portion of the ball, Where, faint at best, the beams of science fall.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.3, l.83^4.

   He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting nowö Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Adonais, stanza 38.

   He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Adonais, stanza 43.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.33^5.