Homer quotes - page 5

Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it. (Homer)
Let them be friends, devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth come cresting through the land. View quote
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Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea. View quote
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Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day, drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth. View quote
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Sweet oblivion, sleep dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes. View quote
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Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things! View quote
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He will tell you no lies, for he is an excellent person. View quote
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If indeed there be a god in heaven. View quote
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The blessed gods have no love for crime. They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men. View quote
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These things surely lie on the knees of the gods. View quote
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Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil. (Homer)
I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here. View quote
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But the will of Zeus will always overpower the will of men. View quote
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Worthless is as worthless does. View quote
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From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey. View quote
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I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos. View quote
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance. View quote
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. View quote
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. View quote
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Dreams come from Zeus. View quote
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Yet do not bring up against me the sweet favours of golden Aphrodite. 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. (Homer)
But when he let loose that great voice from his chest and the words came piling on like a driving winter blizzard - then no man alive could rival Odysseus! Odysseus... we no longer gazed in wonder at his looks. View quote
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She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven. View quote
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Smiling through tears. View quote
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Sleep, universal king of gods and men. View quote
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