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• Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 157...
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
• He serves me most who serves his country best.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 201...
• Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 304...
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 293...
• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
• For love deceives the best of womankind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 463...
• For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 429...
• Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xii, Line 283...