Homer Quotes

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Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men.

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Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans.

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Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.

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Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death.

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The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath.

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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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If fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

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If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess— so she strikes our eyes!

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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

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Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

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Like cicadas, which sit upon a tree in the forest and pour out their piping voices, so the leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower.

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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

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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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Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.

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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

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"Patroklos," said he, "you deemed that you should sack our city, rob our Trojan women of their freedom, and carry them off in your ships to your own country. Fool; Hektor and his fleet horses were ever straining their utmost to defend them. I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here."

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Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

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All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

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