Homer Quotes - Page 18

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• The long historian of my country's woes.

  Homer

  Country, Long, History

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.331

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• One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

  Homer

  Life, Short Life, Immortality

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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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.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Heaven

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.193

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• In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
  Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
  TO gods and men.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Men

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• Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

  Homer

  Mourning, Belly, Mourn

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• Thou wilt lament
  Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
  And shall admit no cure.

  Homer

  Regret, Evil, Done

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.231

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• Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

  Homer

  Fame, Renown, Deathless

  Homer (1769). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.329

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• The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
  And give to fame what we to nature owe.

  Homer

  Giving, Pay, Fame

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.352

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• But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
  So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

  Homer

  Eye, Names, Fame

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.218

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• And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
  In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

  Homer

  Soul, Lasts, Mead

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.426, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Homer

  Thinking, Iliad, Valiant

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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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• So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Grace

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• Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

  Homer

  Men, Half, Slavery

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• Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

  Homer

  Spring, Blow, Men

  Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Turtleback

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• We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

  Homer

  Home, Black, Littles

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• When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

  Homer

  People, Democracy

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• Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

  Homer

  Back Again

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• The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

  Homer

  War, Play, Want

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad: the story of Achilles”, New American Library of Canada

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• Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

  Homer

  War, Nice, Wind

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

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• Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

  Homer

  War, Civil War, Homeless

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

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• Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

  Homer

  Glorious

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Dog, Home, Men

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
  Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
  Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
  Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

  Homer

  Life, Pride, Gold

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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