Homer Quotes - Page 15

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• It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

  Homer

  Tales, Tedious

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• It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

  Homer

  Wish, Doe, Guests

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• I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

  Homer

  Home, Men, Departed

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• Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

  Homer

  Scene, Call Me

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• I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

  Homer

  Life, Success, Heart

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

  Homer

  Sex, Men, Lord

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• And not a man appears to tell their fate.

  Homer

  Fate, Men

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.236

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• A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
  One should our interests and our passions be,
  My friend must hate the man that injures me.

  Homer

  Friendship, Hate, Passion

  Homer (1813). “The Iliad”, p.220

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• Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
  That ever felt another's woe.

  Homer

  Sympathy, Grateful, Tears

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

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• His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

  Homer

  Home, Soul, Native

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.258

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• Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

  Homer

  Art, Strong, Revenge

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.96

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• Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

  Homer

  Coffee, Rags, Tables

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• All men have need of the gods.

  Homer

  Life, Men, Religion

  Homer (2016). “The Odyssey”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

  Homer

  Heaven, Sound, Earth

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.384

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• This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed
  ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

  Homer

  Way, Cylinders, Should

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• Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

  Homer

  Spirit, Courtesy, Gentle

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• Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

  Homer

  House, Rage From The Iliad, Forget

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

  Homer

  Song, War, Men

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• Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

  Homer

  Hurt, Past, Doe

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.419, University of Chicago Press

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• There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

  Homer

  Sleep, And Love, Fullness

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• It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

  Homer

  Long, Lasts, Iliad

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• If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

  Homer

  Thinking, Iliad, Valiant

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• By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

  Homer

  Discovery, Done, Deeds

  Homer (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

  Homer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

  Homer

  Mourning, Belly, Mourn

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