Homer quotes - page 11

My name is Nobody. (Homer)
If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men. View quote
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Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something, a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it. View quote
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Alike he thwarts the hospitable end, Who drives the free, or stays the hasty friend: True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. View quote
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Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end. View quote
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May you be turned every man of you into earth and water as you sit spiritless and inglorious in your places. View quote
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He lacks the sense to see a day behind, a day ahead. View quote
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Alike the idlers and the active die. View quote
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The day will come when sacred Troy must die, Priam must die and all his people with him, Priam who hurls the strong ash spear! View quote
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But one can't go without his sleep forever. The immortals give each thing its proper place in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth. View quote
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Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts... What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit? So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men live on to bear such torments-the gods live free of sorrows. (Homer)
As when in harp and song adept, a bard Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre. View quote
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They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep. View quote
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Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. View quote
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Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man. View quote
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Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow? Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms Must pay the penalty for lawless charms. View quote
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Well then, what shall I go through first, what shall I save for last? View quote
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Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war, strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable, never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands. View quote
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Nothing more shameless is than Appetite, Who still, whatever anguish load our breast, Makes us remember in our own despite Both food and drink. View quote
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For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness. View quote
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No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle. (Homer)
No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents. View quote
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Not iron, trust me, the heart within my breast. I am all compassion. View quote
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And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy gods as they watched the god of fire breathing hard and bustling through the halls. View quote
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Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin. View quote
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