To Labour Is The Lot Of Man Below; And When Jove Gave Us Life, He Gave Us Woe.

T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 290...
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 271...
Content to follow when we lead the way.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 141...
He serves me most who serves his country best.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 201...
The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xii, Line 393...
Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,-- For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xix, Line 319...
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 526...
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...
This, this is misery! the last, the worst That man can feel.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 106...