Homer quotes - page 12

It is the god who accomplishes all things. (Homer)
There shall be a dawn or an afternoon or a noontime when some man in the fighting will take the life from me also either with a spearcast or an arrow flown from the bowstring. View quote
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Clearly doing good puts doing bad to shame. View quote
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How ill, alas! do want and shame agree! View quote
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Long nights the now declining year bestows; A part we consecrate to soft repose, A part in pleasing talk we entertain; For too much rest itself becomes a pain. View quote
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To some the powers of bloody war belong, To some, sweet music, and the charm of song; To few, and wondrous few, has Jove assigned A wise, extensive, all-considering mind. View quote
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So nothing is as sweet as a man's own country, his own parents, even though he's settled down in some luxurious house, off in a foreign land and far from those who bore him. View quote
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In form of Stentor of the brazen voice, Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men. View quote
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Welcome words on their lips, and murder in their hearts. View quote
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My soul Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught, I have learned patience, having much endured. View quote
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Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile! As ever, god brings like and like together! (Homer)
Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it. View quote
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If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. View quote
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Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind; Review the series of our lives, and taste The melancholy joy of evils passed: For he who much has suffered, much will know, And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe. View quote
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Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers, while the bad prevails. View quote
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It's wrong, my friend, to send any stranger packing- even one who arrives in worse shape than you. Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus and whatever scrap they get from the likes of us, they'll find it welcome. View quote
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I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are-they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with. View quote
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Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is. View quote
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Glory to him, but to us a sorrow. View quote
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Who, on his own, has ever really known who gave him life? View quote
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He in the turning dust lay mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten. (Homer)
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. View quote
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The fleeting shadows of the dead. View quote
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The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. View quote
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I far excel every one else in the whole world, of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth. View quote
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