Oh, Pity Human Woe! 'T Is What The Happy To The Unhappy Owe.

Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 29...
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 67...
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 379...
Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 210...
No more was seen the human form divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 278...
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 318...
To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest; In virtue rich
in blessing others, blest....
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 312...
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xii, Line 538...