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One Who Contends With Immortals Lives A Very Short Life. -- Homer, Book V Of The Iliad
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One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
-- Homer, Book V of the Iliad
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Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 535...
Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 999...
A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 16...
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 412...
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 371...
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 100...
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, Line 267...
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 725...