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• For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 429...
• For love deceives the best of womankind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 463...
• 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...
• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
• True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 83...
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
• There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love
  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command....
• Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 153...
• Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book v, Line 572...