Homer Quotes

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

Homer
Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.

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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

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Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a shadow, like a dream.

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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

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At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron-mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.

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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

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Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

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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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We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

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But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

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And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words.

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The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

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Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

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The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.

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As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright - there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland, but it stands out in the ineffable radiance that breaks from the serene of heaven.

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One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

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[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

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Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

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I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

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All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

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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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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

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