Homer Quotes

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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.

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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

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All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

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The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

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There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman they long suffer woes.

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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

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Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

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Thus at full ease, in heaps of riches rolled,
What grieves the monarch?

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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

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Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope.

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To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

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Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
That ever felt another's woe.

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Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

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