Homer Quotes
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Death submits to no one.
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Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms.
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.
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Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw.
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
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The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
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Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
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I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!