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Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)

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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.

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For too much rest itself becomes a pain.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 429.

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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 433.

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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.

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For love deceives the best of womankind.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 463.

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And would’st thou evil for his good repay?

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvi. Line 448.

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Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 392.

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In ev’ry sorrowing soul I pour’d delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 505.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A winy vapour melting in a tear.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 143.

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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,
Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 383.

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The fool of fate,—thy manufacture, man.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 254.

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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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