Homer Quotes
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
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Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
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We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
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Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
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Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
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Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.
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While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress
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The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
