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Alexander Pope Quotes about Fighting

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.67

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.460