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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
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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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To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
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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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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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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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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
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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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[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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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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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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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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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
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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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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
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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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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
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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
Odyssey
Homeric Hymns
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