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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
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Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
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Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.
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Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
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For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.
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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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Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.
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To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
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O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
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The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.
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Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
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Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave.
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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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Iliad
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