Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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In virtue rich; in blessing others, blest.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 95.

Oh, pity human woe!

'T is what the happy to the unhappy owe.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 198.

Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast.

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 210.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,

And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!

The Odyssey of Homer. Book vii. Line 263.