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It Is Not Strength, But Art, Obtains The Prize, And To Be Swift Is Less Than To Be Wise.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 383
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Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 368...
Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 367...
Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
A green old age, That proves the hero born in better days.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 929...
T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself
he immortal mind remains....
Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 628...
Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 730...
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 251...
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line 199...