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Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed
The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,--
A theme of future song!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 631
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For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing
by Heaven, and Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown....
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vi, Line 22...
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...
Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 20...
T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 427...
What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 541...
The long historian of my country's woes.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line 142...
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiv, Line 410...