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The Life Which Others Pay Let Us Bestow, And Give To Fame What We To Nature Owe.
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The life which others pay let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xii, Line 393
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The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xi, Line 394...
T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 427...
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...
Content to follow when we lead the way.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 141...
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 78...
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xii, Line 538...
Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 730...
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...
T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 290...