Homer - Earth Quotes

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Very like leaves
upon this earth are the generations of men—
old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves
the greening forest bears when spring comes in.

Homer
The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhada-manthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.

Homer
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.

Homer
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

Homer
I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through;
I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.

Homer
Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

Homer
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Homer
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

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

Homer
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.

Homer
Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.

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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Homer
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

Homer
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

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