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• down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

  Homer

  Curls, Hyacinths, Brows

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.248, Penguin

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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Wisest Man

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

  Homer

  Love, Years, Long

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.2, Macmillan

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• Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

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• Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

  Homer

  Father, Thinking, Compassion

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

  Homer

  Rage From The Iliad, Life Is, Wealth

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: The Story of Troy - Rendered Into English Prose (by Samuel Butler) for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original”, p.132, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

  Homer

  Men, Weapons, Tongue

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

  Homer

  Crooks, Hook, Remember

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.216, Macmillan

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• They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

  Homer

  Knows, Hard, Mortals

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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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• 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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• 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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• Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

  Homer

  Guy, Blame, Speak

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

  Homer

  Evil

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

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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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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Childhood, Ancestry

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

  Homer

  Hero, Towns, Muse

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey: Top Classic Collections”, p.10, 谷月社

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• The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

  Homer

  Mother, Gambling, Monsters

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• The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

  Homer

  Giving, Lord, Please

  Homer (1937). “The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses”

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• We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

  Homer

  Bowling, Ifs

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• First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

  Homer

  Mind, Ponies, Want

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• Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

  Homer

  Father, Fall, Son

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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