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By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.
Homer -
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Homer
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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.
Homer -
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
Homer -
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 -
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
Homer -
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
Homer -
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
Homer
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The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
Homer -
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
Homer -
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
Homer -
Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
Homer -
I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.
Homer
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Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind.
Homer -
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.
Homer -
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.
Homer -
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer -
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.
Homer -
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
Homer
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
Homer -
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Homer -
You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!
Homer -
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
Homer