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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, Singing, And Love

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

  Homer

  Drinking, Grief, Passion

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• The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

  Homer

  Spring, Wind, Tree

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

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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.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

  Homer

  Giving, Soul, Birth

  Homer (2008). “The Iliad of Homer: Easyread Large Edition”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

  Homer

  Love, Power, Grace

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333

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• I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

  Homer

  Zoos, Gone, Dinosaurs

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• The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

  Homer

  Sex, Soldier, Kind

  Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.229

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• The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

  Homer

  War, Chance, Slayer

  Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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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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• I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
  exaggerated.

  Homer

  Rumor, Goes On, Prison

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• Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
  in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
  fair.

  Homer

  Looks, Asking, Like 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.

  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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• Praise me not too much,
  Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
  Who know me.

  Homer

  Greek, Too Much, Blame

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.314

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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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• I want to be alone with my thought.

  Homer

  Want, My Thoughts, Wants To Be Alone

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• A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

  Homer

  Boys, Balls, Liquid

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• My hour at last has come;
  Yet not ingloriously or passively
  I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
  Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

  Homer

  Deeds, Lasts, Firsts

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.271

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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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• 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.

  Homer

  Wise, Book, Wine

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