Homer - Iliad

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

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As the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyelids for me as I lay dying into Hades.

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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

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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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Great Priam entered in, and coming close to Achilles, clasped in his hands his knees, and kissed his hands, the terrible, man-slaying hands that had slain his many sons.

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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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Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave.

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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

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The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.

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O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

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Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

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The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.

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For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

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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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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.

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

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Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

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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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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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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

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

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

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