Homer - Odyssey

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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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

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

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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

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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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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

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

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

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

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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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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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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's cursed appetite.

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

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By their own follies they perished, the fools.

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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

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I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf, even a poor man's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.

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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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Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

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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.

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Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

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

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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

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