Homer Quotes - Page 13

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• 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

  Men, Giving, Talent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

  Homer

  Military, Fighting, Battle

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• There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

  Homer

  Sorrow, Advantage, Grim

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.517, University of Chicago Press

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• It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

  Homer

  Tree, Jerk, Standing There

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• Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

  Homer

  Heaven, Flow, Riches

  Homer (2010). “Odyssey”, p.490, The Floating Press

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• Dreams are sent by God.

  Homer

  Dream

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• Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.

  Homer

  Blessed, Men, Sun

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• For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

  Homer

  Ocean, Science, Earth

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• Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

  Homer

  Sadness, Flames, Land

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• It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

  Homer

  Success, Fighting, Men

  Homer (1848). “The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope”, p.151

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• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Breathing

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

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• By turns the nine delight to sing

  Homer

  Inspiration, Delight, Nine

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• Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Honor

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• I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

  Homer

  Meals, Breakfast, Brunch

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• We all scribble poetry.

  Homer

  Poetry, Scribbles

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• A little child born yesterday
  A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

  Homer

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

  Homer

  Country, Fall, Glorious

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.315, Homer

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Swings, Skills

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• And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

  Homer

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Whole

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

  Homer

  Sports, Strong, Heart

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

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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!

  Homer

  Grief, Son, Blood

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• The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

  Homer

  Men, Light, Sea

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

  Homer

  Moving, Forever, Arches

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• And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

  Homer

  Evil

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.454

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