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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 346 |
| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| 3792 |
| True friendship’s laws are by this rule exprest,— Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. 1 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 83. |
| 3793 |
| For too much rest itself becomes a pain. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 429. |
| 3794 |
| Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 433. |
| 3795 |
| And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer’d, much will know. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 434. |
| 3796 |
| For love deceives the best of womankind. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 463. |
| 3797 |
| And would’st thou evil for his good repay? |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvi. Line 448. |
| 3798 |
| Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 392. |
| 3799 |
| In ev’ry sorrowing soul I pour’d delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 505. |
| 3800 |
| Unbless’d thy hand, if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies. 2 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 576. |
| 3801 |
| Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow, |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 26. |
| 3802 |
| Yet taught by time, my heart has learn’d to glow For others’ good, and melt at others’ woe. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 269. |
| 3803 |
| A winy vapour melting in a tear. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 143. |
| 3804 |
| But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 383. |
| 3805 |
| The fool of fate,—thy manufacture, man. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 254. |
| 3806 |
| Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 461. |
| Note 1. See Quotation 162. [back] |
| Note 2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.—Hebrews xiii. 2. [back] |
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