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Our Fruitless Labours Mourn, And Only Rich In Barren Fame Return.
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Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 46
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Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 29...
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 308...
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 662...
No more was seen the human form divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 278...
But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 591...
Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 20...
Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 642...
To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest; In virtue rich
in blessing others, blest....
It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiv, Line 65...