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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
• For love deceives the best of womankind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 463...
• For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 429...
• And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 434...
• Who love too much, hate in the like extreme, And both the golden mean alike condemn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 79...
• And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 583...
• Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 157...
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...