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Born But To Banquet, And To Drain The Bowl.
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Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 662
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
No more was seen the human form divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 278...
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 308...
Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 29...
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...
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 46...
The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 85...
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 722...
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 372...